Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.
Thomas Goodwin

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

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.
Morarji Desai

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
Alex Campbell

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

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
Edgar Rice Burroghs

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Miyamoto Musashi

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
Edwin Louis Cole

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
Kenneth L. Pike

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
Pete Sampras

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
Herodotus

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
Ronnie James Dio

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
Donald Judd

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
Jasmine Guy

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell