A Quote by Thomas a Kempis

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Thomas a Kempis

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Thomas a Kempis
German - Priest
1380 - 1471

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Thomas a Kempis

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

Thomas a Kempis

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

Ralph Nader

Of two Evils we take the less.

Richard Hooker

Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.

Anne Provoost

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

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 he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

Morarji Desai

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

Gene Stratton-Porter

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.

Fannie Barrier Williams

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.