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That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.


Lyn Nofziger
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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
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
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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
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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
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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.
Annie Besant
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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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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
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This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
George Grey
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.


Daniel Defoe
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The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.


Mariano Rajoy
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.


Paul Klee
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I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
Robert Byrd
Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.
Kenneth Fisher
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The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
John Boyd Orr
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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
To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.
John Lynch
Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State.
Donald Trump
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The evil that we know is best.


Plautus
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