Lesser Quotes

Although war is evil, it is occasionally 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

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

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.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

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.

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.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

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