Quotes on Lesser Evil

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.