Notwendiges Übel / Necessary Evil Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Notwendiges Übel / Necessary Evil:

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Menander

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

Amy Carter

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Annie Besant

There are guys who thrive completely on the action in the ring and see the promotion as a necessary evil, whereas I think it's so much easier to tell people what a tough guy you are, as opposed to backing it up.

Mick Foley

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Mark Twain

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

F. H. Bradley

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Sparky Anderson

A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.

Kristen Connolly

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Franz Kafka

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Michael Bloomberg

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter

There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.

Lindsay Wagner

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson