Lesser Quotes

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

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?

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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