Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. — Tryon Edwards
If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less. — Ralph Nader
The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore. — Ralph Nader
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. — Plato
If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice. — Michael Neill
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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
Short Lesser Of Two Evils Quotes
Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement. — Gerald Celente
When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before. — Mae West
Better the best of the worst than the worst of the best. — Yiddish Proverbs
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. — Baltasar Gracian
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. — Mae West
A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit. — Russian Proverbs
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. — William Blake
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. — James Monroe
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. — Peter Singer
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Lesser Evil Quotes
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
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
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
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up. — Jill Stein
New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough. — Jill Stein
I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. — Howard Dean
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. — Margaret Mead
Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. — McGeorge Bundy
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life. — Morarji Desai
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does. — Pope Francis
Two Evils Quotes
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution. — John Adams
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. — Huey Newton
Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most. — Sitting Bull
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land. — Francisco Franco
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence. — Alexandre Dumas
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Remember two matters and forget two matters;
1. Remember Allah (SWT) and death.
2. Forget any good that you have done to another and any evil that was done to you by another — Luqman
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. — James Meade
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. — Thomas Carlyle
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. — Ayn Rand
The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote. — Aaron Russo
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil. — Jerry Garcia
Well, I'm against Bush. I'm definitely not pro-Bush. I think he's a maniac and a mad man, and I think he needs to go. As far as Kerry -- you know, I think that it really came down to a choice of the lesser of two evils, and unfortunately Bush won. — Roger Miret
And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like. — Stephen King
Law enforcement has always had informants and people they've had to deal with, who walk a certain line. They're choosing between the lesser of two evils. They're befriend one person to gain access to another person, who's a bigger fish. — Mike Colter
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils. — Edgar Rice Burroghs
When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil. — Max Lerner
It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils. — Meg White
The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies that are clearly stated and directed at subverting liberty. He's definitely the lesser of two evils. — Naomi Wolf
I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils. — Gene Weingarten
Every time we have had a presidential election where there is "White or Black," you always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, so you either vote for "Satan" or the "Devil," and you catch hell with either one. — Louis Farrakhan
What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word. — John Derbyshire
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
the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers. — Patricia Ireland
It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil. And they weren't too sure about that. — Joseph Sobran
Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum — Thomas a Kempis
I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction. — Chris Hedges
Take a look at the police and how they treat you,
Take a look at these corporations that cheat you.
Democrats and Republicans are all see-through.
Now we votin for the lesser of two evils...
Man, don't let 'em deceive you.
This is an autocracy, not a democracy,
But to call this a democracy without mock interest
In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy. — KRS-One
Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce. — R. C. Sproul
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