#lesser

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

#bad #could #dealing #him #label

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

— Aldo Leopold

#education #feathers #goose #his #lesser

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

— George Orwell

#lesser #often #war

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

#considers #delegates #himself #joe #lesser

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

— Jerry Garcia

#constantly #evil #evils #lesser #still

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

— Max Lerner

#choose #evil #evils #lesser #remember

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#america #asking #begun #belief #decline

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid. ↗

— Macklemore

#corrupt #easy #essentially #evils #feel

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#evil #good #label #lesser #may