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  • You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you know, that your choice number two, which might be your lesser evil, your safety choice, your vote is automatically reassigned from your first choice to your second choice if your first choice losses and there's not a majority winner. So it essentially eliminates, splitting it, eliminates having to vote your fear instead of your values.

    Loss   Winning   Two  
    Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com
  • I think we are only going to get it by standing up and voting our values, understanding that the lesser evil doesn't solve the problem. It just prolongs the problem and it paves the way to the greater evil. That the policies of the Clintons, the Wall Street deregulation and NAFTA, created the economic misery that becomes very fertile territory for demagogues like Donald Trump.

    Wall   Thinking   Evil  
    Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
  • But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness, involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused.

    Blessing   People   Evil  
    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864). “The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes”, p.277, New York : C. Scribner ; London : Sampson Low
  • There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failure to successfully enforce these laws is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Colombia. I haven't even included the harm to young people. It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes.

  • The lesser of two evils is still evil.

    Popular Vote   Two   Evil  
  • Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.

    Two   Evil   Voting  
  • I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

    Two   Evil   May  
    "Source: Clark to endorse Kerry". www.cnn.com. February 13, 2004.
  • As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

    Evil   Regimes   Interest  
  • If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

    Two   Evil   Stills  
  • I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

    Thinking   Games   Two  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough.

    Two   Evil   Majority  
    Source: college.usatoday.com
  • Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  • I would never say they look exactly the same, but what I would say is that the differences are not enough to save your job, to save your life, or to save the planet. And what we have right now is a race to the bottom, between the greater and lesser evil. [Donald] Trump is a very dangerous and despicable demagogue. However, you know, policy for policy, Hillary's [Clinton] are also extremely dangerous.

    Jobs   Differences   Race  
    "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.
  • Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

    Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.18, Shambhala Publications
  • Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

    Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.91, Shambhala Publications
  • No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

    Happiness   Mistake   Men  
    Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The lesser evil is also evil.

    Naomi Mitchison (1997). “Lobsters on the Agenda”, Birlinn Publishers
  • The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.432
  • 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.

    Party   Believe   Evil  
    "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.
  • What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word.

    Eight   Years   Two  
  • Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.

    War   Evil   Voting  
    "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.
  • When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

    Integrity   Two   Evil  
  • The lack of money is the root of all evil.

    Funny   Bible   Sarcastic  
    Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press
  • Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

    Two   Evil   Choices  
  • The American people are sick and tired of this ‘lesser evil’ garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they’re in office...

    Tired   Years   People  
    "Roseanne Barr Places 6th In Presidential Election (UPDATED)" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.
  • 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. .

    Evil   Chosen   Greater  
    Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1786, Princeton University Press
  • It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

    Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson
  • Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

    Two   Evil   Choices  
  • Well, I'm against Bush. I'm definitely not pro-Bush. I think he's a maniac and a mad man, and I think he needs to go. As far as Kerry -- you know, I think that it really came down to a choice of the lesser of two evils, and unfortunately Bush won.

    Men   Thinking   Two  
  • Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

    Love You   Men   Yield  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”
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