Lesser Evil Quotes

“Is it better to have your life ended by someone who hates you or someone who loves you?”
― Laura Sebastian, Ash Princess

“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
― Margaret Mead

“I danced in the flames and pranced on the shames of those whose names I could not reveal. I have been told, exhaustingly by a genus of psychiatry, that to forget allegedly means to heal but if only such a thought became real. To die when compared to living has, at times, seemed like the lesser evil.”
― The Raveness, Night Tide Musings

“- ბოროტება ბოროტებაა, სტრებოგორ - მხედვარი წამოდგა, - ნაკლები, მეტი, საშუალო - სულერთია. ზომები პირობითია, საზღვრები - არეული.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski

“A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, easy being an angel. And then something happened. Something went wrong or broke down or failed. And they had become faced with the necessity of choosing not good or evil but the lesser of two evils, and so that had unhinged them and now each was a man.”
― Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

“Better the devils you know than the one you don't.”
― Janet Mullany, Jane and the Damned

“Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks?”
― Scott Perkins, Howard Carter Saves the World

“The most difficult part of renouncing evil altogether is renouncing the habit of cheering for supposedly lesser evils in their fight against supposedly greater ones.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“Only the liberals and soft-leftists persist in agonizing as they give their (actually unqualified) loyalty, in advance, to people who publicly spit on them. I don’t know whether the masochist or the sadist commits the greater evil, but I do know that you can’t have one without the other.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

“You don't believe in it, you say. Well you're right, in a way. Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes, True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“The next little thing about this vote-for-the-lesser-evil trick, of course—and this is no secret to anyone anymore—is that it drives all the “serious” candidates toward what is commonly referred to as the “moderate center,” even if these serious candidates aren’t, in fact, moderate or centrist in any meaningful sense and the so-called center moves further to the right with each election cycle. For nearly two decades now this process has been steadily advancing on the Democratic side, as liberals are trained to accept the idea that the national majority will never accept a true labor party, or any candidate perceived as “soft” on defense.”
― Matt Taibbi

“I vote Labour. To me, voting Labour is like wiping your bottom: I can't say I like doing it but you've got to - because you're in a worse mess if you don't.”
― Jeremy Hardy, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation

“Once I did believe the world could be perfected. I don't think that any more. But I believe I've defended the bad side against the worst.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.”
― George Orwell