(40 quotes found)
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
Margaret Mead
“I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.”
Howard Dean
“The African was defined and treated as being of a lesser human species than even the lowliest among the colonizers.”
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
“Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
Baltasar Gracian
“Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. ”
Augustus de Morgan
“To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world.”
Chip Taylor
“Professor Mehta is a very well known scientist, but there are many lesser known scientists to whom this is happening. The bigger issue is important.”
Carthage Smith
“It's just aggravating, ... Hale is retired somewhere, fat and happy, while others who are accused of much lesser crimes face court-martials, public humiliation and financial ruin.”
Carolyn Maloney
“We came here. We attacked. The better team doesn't always win. We were not the lesser team last week. We were not the lesser team this week. I'm always a realistic optimist. We are as good as anyone in this league when we perform like we know we can.”
Bob Gansler
“The David Souter example - and to a lesser extent Anthony Kennedy - have made conservatives exceedingly skeptical of any urge to just 'trust me,' ”
Whit Ayres
