Necessary Evil Quotes

“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
― Margaret Mead

“This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to live will by necessity far exceed the skill of ordinary men, who are as much tempted by the desire to be honest as they are plagued by guilt and shame when they have broken faith.”
― Michael Ennis, The Malice of Fortune

“Eve with her apple, biting in. Eurydice, smiling when the snake bit her ankle, then again, when he fatally tripped on his desire to keep her small and by his side. Things done wrong for the right reasons.

No one is in charge of us, but us.”
― Laurie Perez, The Power of Amie Martine

“There is no such thing as a necessary evil.”
― Alan Cohen