Lesser Quotes

306 quotes by 273 authors

It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule the lesser species… — Stephen Colbert
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating. — G. Willow Wilson
Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum — Thomas a Kempis
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it,… — Christian Nestell Bovee
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings… — H. L. Mencken
The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without… — Jean de la Bruyere
A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and,… — Malcolm X
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished… — H. L. Mencken
Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. — Robert Breault
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too… — Soren Kierkegaard
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all… — Gunnar Myrdal
The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner. — Ving Rhames
There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation. — Frederick Lenz
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else. — Frederick Lenz
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he… — Aasif Mandvi
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away… — John Ralston Saul
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing… — Edmund Burke
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the… — Prince Charles

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