I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and dedicated people whose primary interest is to make sure the game is played fairly. We are the integrity of the game.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.