#lesser

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

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#fill #interpreter #lesser #many #obliged

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#behavior #control #controls #culture #extent

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ↗

— Plato

#larger #lesser #lie #say #stones

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#faculty #few #great #great deal #great minds

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. ↗

— McGeorge Bundy

#evil #evils #lesser #occasionally #two

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things. ↗

— Billy Joel

#brings #care #consequence #fool #i