Quotes of Iniquitous - somelinesforyou

“ Of evils one should choose the least. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war. ”

- Saul Bellow

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

- Mae West

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

- Andrew Jackson

“ There are worse evils than war. ”

- Owen Wister

“ The evils we do to others give us less pain than those we do to ourselves. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ We must as second best…take the least of the evils. ”

- Aristotle

“ I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. ”

- Euripides

“ Of two evils we must always choose the least. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. ”

- Bible

“ No one who errs unwillingly is evil. ”

- Sophocles

“ An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. ”

- Bible

“ As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ Keep what you have; the known evil is best. ”

- Titus

“ It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts — you have no idea of the pain it gives one. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Of two evils choose the least. ”

- Erasmus

“ Of two evils, choose the prettier. ”

- Carolyn Wells

“ The evil that we know is best. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. ”

- Seneca

“ Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. ”

- Titus Livius

“ Of two evils, choose neither. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

- Max Lerner

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

- Mae West

“ All evils are equal when they are extreme. ”

- Pierre Corneille

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

- Mae West

“ It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ”

- Tryon Edwards
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