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


Thomas Paine
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
Tags: Good Never Must
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
Tags: Good War Peace
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.


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


Amy Carter
I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
Daniel Craig
Tags: You Think I Think
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
Tags: Women Who Most
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
Laura Schlessinger
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
Irwin Redlener
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.


Sam Mendes
Tags: Good Think Evil
My resume is lean enough that I don't have the added baggage that is not necessary to be able to be successful in government.
Grace Poe
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tags: Good Between Evil
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Evil prospers when good men do nothing.


John Philpot Curran
Tags: Good Men Nothing
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To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.


Claudius
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
Tags: Men Life He
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I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.


Charles Van Doren
Tags: Good About Always
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Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.


Isabel Allende
Tags: Life Very Our
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I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.


Matthew Fox
Tags: Car Always Been
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We can overcome evil with greater good.


Laura Bush
Tags: Good Evil Greater
The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.
Charlie Pierce
Tags: Time Change Over