Evils

Famous quotes containing the word evils:

“There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“There are evils ... that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)