Sentences with phrase «but necessary evils»

The identical twins who earned perfect test scores College entrance exams, the SAT and the ACT, are dreaded but necessary evils for high school students trying to get ahead.

As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense, «society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.»

No wonder the Tory leader has given signs large and small that he regards a partnership with the Lib Dems as anything but a necessary evil.

Gross, I know, but a necessary evil.

My next project is to get a whole load of clothes ironed and photographed so that I can upload them onto eBay - not the quickest of chores, but a necessary evil.

Anything with DRM is generally disliked but a necessary evil it seems.

For epicurean travelers, the «cocktails» from an airplane's beverages cart are a watery but necessary evil for surviving long - haul international flights.

Tax season certainly isn't fun but a necessary evil for all of our US readers.

«It seems like Shell considers the damage it does to the climate as an awful but necessary evil.

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I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

Sometimes, crunch time is a necessary evil, but employers should be a little humble about it.

Meetings can absorb a huge amount of time, but they're often a necessary evil.

Sometimes that's a necessary evil if you're getting much better financing, but it's not necessarily the most cost - effective option.

The major Christian tradition has not been pacifism, in the sense of refusal to share in any war, but it has been a testimony for peace in the sense that war is seen as a necessary evil at best and never something in which to glory.

The agonized participant believes war is never an act of justice, but that it may sometimes be necessary to prevent an even greater evil.

But religions have a way of going beyond necessary compromise and tacitly condoning or even supporting evil when it could be effectively opposed.

Divine providence, of course, will always bring about God's good ends despite — and in a sense through — the evils of this world; but that is not the same thing as saying that evil has a necessary part to play in God's plans, and that God required evil to bring about the kingdom.

Many times I am uncomfortable where my path leads but looking back it seems to be a necessary evil... ha ha..

We will look at this verse in more detail when we discuss the Calvinistic idea of Limited Atonement, but for now, it is enough to note that even if the whole world lies under the control of the wicked one, Jesus has done what is necessary to liberate the whole world from the evil one so that they can respond to the gospel and believe in Jesus for eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:7 - 13).

Paradise is at the lower end of separateness, but in order that its upper part, the kingdom, the great peace and unification, come, evil is necessary....

I'm sure many people would consider themselves pacifists but say that this is too extreme a definition, one might say for example that pacifism means «attempting to promote peace and making it a goal, but accepting that war is necessary in some cases to prevent greater evils,» however the way violence vs. following Jesus is being discussed in this context doesn't allow such concessions.

But the freedom of events, both good and evil, is a necessary character of their being.

It is a long way from such an ideal of political activity to the actualities in which it is carried on; but it is essential to our human attempt to live together to see that the «game of politics» is not merely a necessary evil but that it has at its best a link with legitimate good.

But the evil is in the tyranny, not in the coercion, In some human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible personsBut the evil is in the tyranny, not in the coercion, In some human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible personsbut also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.14

As the reform movements sweeping through Eastern Europe are learning, denunciation of evil and corruption is a necessary first step toward social change, but constructing new institutional arrangements is by far the more arduous task.

It is painful (but necessary) reading, for it reminds us how easily and shockingly prominent individuals, including self - professed Christians, fell sway to the radical evils of racism, anti-Semitism and nationalism.

Just soldiers and commanders are sorry that evil exists to such an extent that acts of force are necessary to bring about justice, but they are not sorry about their acts of force.

Growth as measured by GDP is not a good, but more a necessary evil.

War is hard, yes, I knew that, but when it's just, when its necessary, the good of it outweighs the evil, it can be used to do a tremendous amount of good.

True, the purpose of retribution is served by the murderer's death, but under certain circumstances retribution might interfere with other purposes of punishment: it might prematurely put an end to his rehabilitation; it might undermine deterrence (say, by so angering his compatriots that they, too, commit evils); and it might not be necessary for the physical safety of others.

But since the spiritual is clearly the more important of the two, if the physical needs are a necessary evil to gain access to the spiritual, then so be it.

Schulweis could write that Whitehead finds occasions which are intrinsically evil to be necessary and justified for the attainment of higher perfections, but he should hasten to add that such occasions must be referred to as «good» in light of the whole.

The proper definition of apparent evil, however, is prima facie evil which when judged from an ultimate frame of reference is that in the place of which no other realistically possible occurrence could be better.2 «Apparent» evil is not only a means to perfection, but also a morally necessary and justified means.

«By any means necessary» may appeal to some because it promises full exploitation of every avenue to liberation, but its failure to use only just means results ultimately in creating more suffering and evil.

The plunge into evil, is not merely inevitable but necessary, and the apple of iniquitous knowledge must be bitten willfully.

(2) Evil is not an inherent or necessary part of existence or human nature, but rather a choice, freely exercised at any given moment.

(3) Evil is not an inherent or necessary part of existence or human nature (creation was created good), but neither are humans wholly free to choose the good at any given moment.

The issue, in sum, is not whether an omnipotent deity's deception of its self - conscious creatures would be morally problematic but only whether such deception, if necessary in order to have a world with all the positive values of the present one but without its horrendous evils, would be justified as the lesser of evils.

For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary?

We may not change how you see dinner as a necessary evil, but we can certainly take the devil out of the details!

I despise fast food, now, but when traveling, I find it a necessary evil, Wendy's is better than the ones who cook with «pink slime»!!!

Vintage charts are never perfect — the world of wine is complex, and summaries and short - cuts are a necessary evil, but those who trust in them will miss out on some great wine.

I know the safety of the game is important, but putting on pads and hitting is a necessary evil and if you don't, the quality of the game, the execution and fundamentals are compromised.

As painful as it is for me to say this, but I think this was a necessary evil we had to experience... An massive eye opener for the staff, the manager, the players, and fans.

Curbing the game's plague of force - related issues — without creating an entirely new sport and burying the old one completely — means dealing with force as a necessary evil at worst, and as a prohibited but inevitable ghost in the machine at best.

Probably not, but he'd understand the necessary evil of it since a vast majority of the NFL old white owners more than likely wouldn't give a minority coach / GM candidate the time of day unless they were already intimately familiar with them.

Yes, the poop roulette that parents play while potty training is perhaps the most disgusting part of parenthood, but it is a necessary evil, unless you want your kid to be the kid that has poop on his shirt and smells like the inside of a shoe.

I hate it, but it is a necessary evil.

Not every child lives with the mantra «hurt or be hurt,» but unfortunately for many kids who end up in facilities for juvenile delinquents, it's a necessary evil to survive.

And just this week, Paladino said he finds the task of campaigning for governor «the most disgusting thing ever got myself involved with,» but added: «It's a necessary evil so that I can do the real job.»