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Greater Evil Quotes

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them. Blaise Pascal
Socrates quote: "There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate..."
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. Socrates
Sophocles quote: "There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to..."
There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider. Sophocles
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it Anne Bronte
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. William Godwin
William Vickrey quote: "Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate..."
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. William Vickrey
Herodotus quote: "Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war..."
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. Herodotus
Sophocles quote: "There is no greater evil than anarchy."
There is no greater evil than anarchy. Sophocles
Sophocles quote: "There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune."
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. Sophocles
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue. Jay Alan Sekulow
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is. John Piper
I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom ?] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil? Fyodor Dostoevsky
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control. Soren Kierkegaard
Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. Plato

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