Lesser Quotes
306 quotes by 262 authors
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Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be…
— Saint Basil
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OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality…
— Ayn Rand
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There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.
— Ron Fournier
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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…
— Sigmund Freud
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
— Jerry Garcia
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When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
— William Glasser
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
— Baltasar Gracian
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There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
— Jasmine Guy
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Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.
— Howard Dean
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I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
— Lena Dunham
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I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll.…
— Lupe Fiasco
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
— Penn Jillette
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
— Billy Joel
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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…
— Erica Jong
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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…
— D. H. Lawrence
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