I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Injustice poverty slavery ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals individual and collective a vast variety of them seldom predictable at times incompatible.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity and yet as if nature had not sown evils enough in life we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world with all its corruption and evils and cruelties and the splendid world of our imagination.

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

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels but because they do not expect holiness from one another but from God only.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils but the present are commonly too hard for it.

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

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.

I suffered evils but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces and that cure is freedom.

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.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

It is the strange fate of man that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

My friends whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away and in their stead I beheld the horrors the corruption the evils and hypocrisy of society and as I stood among them a young wife a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

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

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.