quotes about Necessary Evil
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
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Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
-- Arthur Penrhyn StanleySource : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1859). “Sermons Preached Before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: During His Tour in the East in the Spring of 1862 with Notices of Some of the Localities Visited”, p.284
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
-- C. S. Lewis -
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
-- Carolyn Wells -
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When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
-- Matthew ScullySource : Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.429, Macmillan
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Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.
-- Richard Branson -
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
-- Robert Southey -
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I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
-- Willem de Kooning