#evil

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#accustomed #basis #behavior #beings #cooperate

We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th. ↗

— Orville Wright

#camp #dayton #devil #friday #hill

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras. ↗

— Sean Young

#city #devils #smiling

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#drinking #evils #gave #i #read

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. ↗

— Andre Gide

#change #evil #never #struggle #work

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#course #does #energy #energy sources #everything

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. ↗

— William Godwin

#conscience #evil #forget #government #individual

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. ↗

— William Godwin

#everything #evil #sense #some #term

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

#appear #bound #calls #case #deprive

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#even #evils #fate #fear #greatest