Top 48 Lesser Evil Quotes
#1. Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#3. Tell me sir if you will, where in the Bible does it state that it's ok to judge others based purely on assumption? Can you see now who is the lesser evil between the two?
Sofea Shah
#4. Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.
Margaret Atwood
#5. Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian
#8. I thought I was choosing the lesser evil. I chose the lesser evil. Lesser evil! I'm Geralt! Witcher ... I'm the Butcher of Blaviken -
Andrzej Sapkowski
#9. Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks?
Scott Perkins
#10. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
#11. The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.
Roseanne Barr
#12. Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
Pope Francis
#13. Prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#14. For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.
Aristotle.
#15. The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.
Jill Stein
#16. The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.
Alvaro De Vasconcelos
#17. Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
Hannah Arendt
#18. I vote because even the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils.
Ellen Goodman
#19. Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum
Thomas A Kempis
#20. Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
Otto Von Bismarck
#21. Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Jerry Garcia
#22. I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
Penn Jillette
#23. It's always the lesser of two evils.'
'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'
-Connor
Neal Shusterman
#24. Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.
David Gemmell
#25. If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.
Ralph Nader
#26. 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
#27. When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
#29. California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.
Jon Stewart
#30. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#31. I could choose what kind of people I preyed on, but in the end, I had to prey on someone. The lesser of the two evils was still evil.
Julie Kagawa
#32. For each man there are different perspectives, but at the core they are the same. Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into pursuit of evil.
David Gemmell
#33. Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another.
Pope Francis
#34. Will you prey on those you consider friends and companions, or a stranger who already owes you his life? Know that each path is evil; you must decide which one is the lesser of two.
Julie Kagawa
#35. The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#36. 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 remedy.
Jean De La Bruyere
#37. Better the devils you know than the one you don't.
Janet Mullany
#38. Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.
McGeorge Bundy
#39. The lesser of two evils is still evil.
Solomon
#40. The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.
Eleftherios Venizelos
#41. Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.
Gerald Celente
#42. 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 problems.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#44. Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
#46. The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.
Ralph Nader
#47. Evil is evil. Big. Small. Grand. Petty. Well-justified or just because. There's no lesser or greater of it. Choosing between them does not make your soul any less blackened.
C.T. Phipps
#48. Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to those you despise. They are your fellow citizens. And together, we are not lesser than any "greatest generation.".
David Brin
