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When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
Matthew Scully
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. Lewis
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Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.
Richard Branson
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Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.
Richard Whately
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As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
Robert Southey
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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 Stanley
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
Aldous Huxley
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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
Carolyn Wells
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It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
James Cook