#lesser

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid. ↗

— Macklemore

#corrupt #easy #essentially #evils #feel

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#evil #good #label #lesser #may

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

— Plato

#larger #lesser #lie #say #stones

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. ↗

— Erica Jong

#battlefield #bedroom #category #class #feeling

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#britain #debris #debts #dollars #extent

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#directed #greater #lesser #more #often

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

— Carlisle Floyd

#extent #father #i #lesser #lesser extent

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#age #beings #continue #day #human

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#bad #basically #because #case #classic