Evils Quotes

In a land where so many have a right to air their opinions and where so many interest are bound to collide and have to be reconciled, unanimity can hardly be expected. We were agreed on the evils but differed on the remedies, and amidst this contention of parties, the very zeal and energy of the best citizens became damaging to the public interest.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

Suppose we were to revolt from Great-Britain, declare ourselves Independent, and set up a Republic of our own-what would be the consequence? - I stand aghast at the prospect - my blood runs chill when I think of the calamities, the complicated evils that must ensue, and may be clearly foreseen.

If an officer is in pursuit [of guerrillas] he would be perfectly justified in retaliating on the farmers among whom they mingle. It is not our wish or policy to destroy the farmers or their farms, but of course there is and must be a remedy for all Evils, if the farmers of a neighborhood encourage or even permit in their midst a set of Guerrillas they cannot expect to escape the necessary consequences.... These principles of war and common sense should be made familiar to the people that they may clearly understand how ... they lay themselves clearly liable to all the risks of war without any of its excitement.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

The evils we experience flow from an excess of democracy.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

To detail the real evils of aristocracy, they must be seen in Europe.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

There is but one sufficient excuse for Christians in suffering such evils to exist in prisons in this country, and that is that they are not acquainted with the real state of things.

Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations