Top 579 Lesser Quotes & Sayings

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

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.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Woman is the lesser man.

I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

I believe that it is preferable sometimes to have one candidate rather another candidate, while you understand that that is not the solution. Sometimes the lesser evil is not so lesser, so you want to ignore that, and you either do not vote or vote for third party as a protest against the party system.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

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. .

As you grow older, there are lesser and lesser roles for you in the movies, while in dance the field opens up as you mature.

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

The lesser jihad is our active fulfillment of Islam's commands and duties.

The older you get, the lesser you are bothered by what others think.

Magnify the father, why bother with something lesser?

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.

I don't think of myself as a lesser player.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.