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  • 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.

    Christian   Evil   Leader  
    Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag
  • 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.

    My Religion (1927) ch. 6
  • If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

    Wisdom   Peace   Fun  
    "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.
  • Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.

    Real   Evil   Intuition  
    ""Real" Analysis is a Degenerate Case of Discrete Analysis". Ruthgers School of Arts and Sciences Website, sites.math.rutgers.edu. November 26, 2001.
  • The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

    "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.
  • The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.

    Home   Writing   Editing  
  • A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

  • I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?

    Thinking   Play   Evil  
    "God, science, and delusion". "Free Inquiry" Interview with Matt Cherry, March 22, 1999.
  • Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

    Idols   Evil   Doe  
  • The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.

  • the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

    Power   Government   Evil  
    Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press
  • Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

    Wendell Phillips (1863). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.307, Gale Cengage Learning
  • I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

    Thinking   Media   Evil  
    "Jack White: 'Is it fun to make music? I don't really know' - an in-depth Q&A from the vaults". Interview with Barney Hoskyns, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2012.
  • 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.

    Wise   Wisdom   Men  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.244
  • The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

    Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)
  • 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.

    Fun   Evil   Lucky  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

    Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1859). “Sermons Preached Before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: During His Tour in the East in the Spring of 1862 with Notices of Some of the Localities Visited”, p.284
  • I believe you can divide the people in to two basic groups, those who believe government is a necessary good and those who believe it is a necessary evil, those who want government to take care of them, those who want government to leave them alone.

  • I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

    Evil   Able   Canvas  
  • Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

    Evil   Faces   Truth Is  
  • Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

    Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.18, Shambhala Publications
  • The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

    Evil   Optimism   World  
    'Appearance and Reality' (1893) preface (on optimism)
  • Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

    Wisdom   Country   Mean  
    Thomas Paine (2017). “Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles”, p.4, Madison & Adams Press
  • For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

    Evil   Want   Helping  
    "The copyright-worrying return of the monkey selfie - Open thread" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2014.
  • Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

    Children   Rocks   Evil  
  • We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

    Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • 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.

    Jobs   Men   Expectations  
    Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.
  • 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.

    Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

    Military   People   Evil  
    "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.
  • The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

    Party   Government   Evil  
    "Hands Off Our Guns" by David Mamet, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 28, 2013.
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