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Example sentences for "necessary evil"

  • Therefore the apostles and fathers of the church regarded marriage as a necessary evil, as prostitution is regarded at present.

  • Kuehn, says: "Prostitution is not only a bearable, but a necessary evil.

  • It was aimed at the strengthening and perpetuation of an institution which even its champions at that time only defended as a necessary evil.

  • Eckstein lectured them on this head to the effect that prostitution was a "necessary evil," never absent from any people or religion.

  • We will take our stand against any league with vice, against any recognition of immorality as a "necessary evil.

  • That all government is an evil, though doubtless a necessary evil, was the typical opinion of the individualistic eighteenth century.

  • Society in every state is a blessing; but government even in its best state is a necessary evil.

  • It is amazing how much good Paine can extract from a necessary evil.

  • We can admit no necessary evil, or the battle of human progress is lost.

  • In this great day of moral and spiritual progress, with powers that we have inherited from our forefathers in this land and other lands, we know that there is no necessary evil.

  • They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be "a necessary evil", and the moment the compromise was made, the whole misbegotten monster of our present tyranny began to grow.


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