Lesser Quotes

306 quotes by 275 authors

I don't believe in stereotypes, I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis. The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy… — Mahatma Gandhi
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for… — R C Sproul
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny" — Mignon McLaughlin
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater. — Gautama Buddha
You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time… — Patrick Symmes
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. — Plato
Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far… — Brett Favre
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. — Thomas Hobbes
I showed myself a lesser version of myself that night, and Iâ€™m glad I learned from it. — Johnny Weir
My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when… — James Weldon Johnson
Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. — Confucius
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There is great danger, yea, many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up… — Thomas Brooks
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… — Augustus De Morgan
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. — Robert Breault
I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important… — Jay Maisel
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral… — Susan Jacoby
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions. — Thomas Nagel
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments,… — Rudolf Rocker

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