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Quotes About Lesser

A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.
~ Charles Kennedy
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
~ A. R. Ammons
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
It becomes easy, Finbar said. It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.
~ Juliet Marillier
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
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values
~ A. R. Ammons
He did not like Europe, which he regarded as a lesser continent, populated with people significantly greedier and more materialistic than Americans. It was a place, he noted, where
~ David Halberstam
Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.
~ Diablo Cody
He is human—they are a lesser species. Over the decades, the dark side has exacted too great a toll on his body. He is a hollow shell of what he once was.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
beauty. We must know for our comfort that Christ was not anointed to this great work of Mediator for lesser sins only, but for the greatest
~ Richard Sibbes
Great men tell the truth and are never believed. Lesser men are always believed, but seldom have the brains or the courage to tell the truth.
~ Kenneth Roberts
Yet because few historians have concerned themselves with the lesser gentry, the case studies which would settle the issue are scarce.
~ Amanda Vickery
Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream...
~ Diablo Cody
Secondrateness comes out of his pores like a fog.
~ Robertson Davies
Public health works by using evidence to lessen harm.
~ Leana S. Wen
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
~ Ian Hacking
Torches glittered and cast dancing shadows here and there, a confusion of greater and lesser lights, for there was really no darkness in any corner now.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal." —Robert Brault
~ Gary Keller
When will she discover that I am from a lesser race of immortals? But the high deities have always needed pixies to persuade them down to earth. When she no longer needs an intermediary, will she still love me?
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
The moral principles that have priority in each model appear in the other model, but with lesser priorities. Those lesser priorities drastically change the effect of those principles.
~ George Lakoff
War teaches us to need an enemy to conquer and overcome and to see those who are different as lesser, dangerous, inhuman [Feminist Earth-based Spirituality and Ecofeminism, Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism ].
~ Starhawk
you're just a side dish not the main course!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
They spoke also of intermediaries between gods and men – the Urshu, a category of lesser divinities whose title meant 'the Watchers'.3
~ Graham Hancock