Lesser Quotes

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.