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We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Oscar Wilde

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

Virgil

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

Sophocles

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

C. S. Lewis

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Amy Lowell

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Mae West

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

Ambrose Bierce

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

Titus Livy

Of two evils, choose the prettier.

Carolyn Wells

It's stopping the lesser of the two evils.

Nicole Maxey

Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.

General John Stark

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Marie Von Ebner eschenbach

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

Howard Dean

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

Mae West

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Max Lerner

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

Huey Newton

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Boethius

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Ludwig Von Mises

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Thomas Brackett Reed

How many evils have flowed from religion.

Lucretius

We end up sort of accepting that is the lesser of evils.

Sandy Clough

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Jerry Garcia

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

John Ray