Evils

Examples

• Fanny was silent; but not from being convinced that there might not be a remedy found for some of these evils. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The heralds of this gospel were acutely conscious of the evils of the social estate in which they found themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Reflecting upon these and similar evils, you held the tyrannical State to be the most miserable of States? Plato. The Republic.
• Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Poor bewildered statesmen, unused to any notion of change, have seen the national life grow to a monstrous confusion and sprout monstrous evils by the way. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Here's a disaster--a multiplicity of disasters in short, as Lady Berwick said one day, when the compound evils fell upon her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Yes, he said, there are all the evils which we were just now passing in review: unrighteousness, intemperance, cowardice, ignorance. Plato. The Republic.
• They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Through all the world spreads the suspicion that this scheme of things might be remade, and remade better, and that our present evils need not be. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Evils, that are certain, have sometimes the same effect in producing fear, as the possible or impossible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Many men, just as well aware of present-day evils as the socialists, are unwilling to accept the collectivist remedy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This graver world of 1920 does seem to be awakening to the truth that there are realities worth seeking and evils not to be tolerated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is not of particular, but of general evils, which I am now complaining. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His evils seemed to lessen, her own advantages to increase, their mutual good to outweigh every drawback. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But she had believed them to be well-meaning, worthy people before; and what difference did this make in the evils of the connexion? Jane Austen. Emma.
• And when you see the same evils in the tyrannical man, what do you say of him? Plato. The Republic.
• Death, waste, hunger, and disease are very rife to-day; the world is full of physical evils, but there is this mental awakening to set against them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Having so many evils, will not the most miserable of men be still more miserable in a public station? Plato. The Republic.
• Such are the evils of delay. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It had been well, if such vain terrors could have distracted our thoughts from more tangible evils. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• We were looking not for the evils of Big Business, but for its anatomy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Thus much of the origin,--let us next consider the evils of oligarchy. Plato. The Republic.
• I had determined, once, that the memory of these evils should die with me; but you have won me to alter my determination. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This tendency to exaggerate classification produces a thousand evils and injustices. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Some complain of the slights which are put upon them by relations, and they will tell you sadly of how many evils their old age is the cause. Plato. The Republic.
• A variety of evils crossed his mind. Jane Austen. Emma.

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