It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
– Margaret Mead
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- Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
- If we contest with a lesser opponent, we reduce ourselves, and in the process wind up being lesser accomplished. – Sandeep Sahajpal
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- Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks? – Scott Perkins
- Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one’s ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one’s share. – Amit Kalantri
- Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. – Amit Abraham
- The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. – Thomas Jefferson
- She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil. – Agatha Christie
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- The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough. – Nikki Rowe
- Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil. – Niccol Machiavelli
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