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.

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.

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

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.