A Quote by John Morley
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives.
The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way.
Our options oftentimes on foreign policy are not a choice between a good one and a bad one. It's a choice between two less-than-ideal options. And you're trying to figure out which is the least harmful of the two. And I think that's something we should be encouraged by, not something that we should be critical of.
No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.
To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
So the political choice today is much like the 1930s, when the global economy also broke down. The choice is between nationalism and populism on the right, or socialism reviving what used to be left-wing politics.
He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.
An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.
Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
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