Geoffrey Neale Quotes

[In a political contest] If you are faced with the lesser of two evils, you have the evil of two lesser.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

It appears to me one of those questions which present great inconveniences whichever way it is decided.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Of two Evils we take the less.

The girl or the world, you see someone gotta lose. I thought I could have it all, do I really gotta choose?

At times we used questionable means to achieve our noble ends.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

I could answer that the way you want, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

A lot of evil has been perpetrated in the name of confronting evil.

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

War is never a choice between a good choice and a bad choice. It is a choice between a bad choice and a worse choice.

The right way is not necessarily the easy one.

Our options oftentimes on foreign policy are not a choice between a good one and a bad one. It's a choice between two less-than-ideal options. And you're trying to figure out which is the least harmful of the two. And I think that's something we should be encouraged by, not something that we should be critical of.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.