Lesser Quotes

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

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

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.

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

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

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

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

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.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

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

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

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

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

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.

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

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.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

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