Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out.

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

Of two evils choose the prettier.

[In a political contest] If you are faced with the lesser of two evils, you have the evil of two lesser.

I'm not a 'but' man. Nothing good ever comes of that word.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

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

You can’t set aside … values in the name of political expediency.

A little hypocrisy is better than losing.

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

When you have to choose between two evils, the choice is going to be evil.

Who wills the ends must not shrink from the means.

If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

Power shifts your thinking from what is right and wrong to what is necessary

One clings to principles for only as long as they are not put to the test. When that happens one throws them away as the peasant does his slippers.

Terrible times require terrible things to be done.

Everybody had a bad day. It's possible to have two bad days in a row. And in this sport, it's so unforgiving.

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.