#greater evil

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. ↗

— Sophocles

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There is no greater evil than anarchy. ↗

— Sophocles

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Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. ↗

— William Vickrey

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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. ↗

— Herodotus

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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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