Zitat des Tages über Übel / Evils:
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel.
The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.
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.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
