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• Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Evil, Lust

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• The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.

  Francisco Franco

  Two, Land, Evil

  "Masonry and Communism" by Jakin Boor (the alias of Francisco Franco) in the journal "Arriba" (December 14, 1946); later quoted in Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurua "Franco: A Biography" (p. 71), 1985.

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• Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Two, Evil

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• If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

  Michael Neill

  Two, Evil, Choices

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• [Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].

  Julie Benz

  Eye, Italian, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.

  Pope Francis

  Order, Two, Evil

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

  Hannah More

  Two, Evil, May

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.474

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• The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote.

  Aaron Russo

  Party, Two Sides, People

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• We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

  Huey Newton

  Fighting, Two, Evil

  Huey P. Newton, Toni Morrison, Elaine Brown (2009). “To die for the people: the writings of Huey P. Newton”, City Lights Publishers

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• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Two, Evil, Immature

  Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.134, University of Missouri Press

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• To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Two, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.29, Full Moon Publications

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• Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wisdom, Men, Two

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.182

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• No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Two, Evil

  "Selected Essays on Political Economy". Book by Frederic Bastiat edited by George B. de Huszar (translated), 1964.

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• If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

  Ralph Nader

  Two, Evil, Vote

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• In love there are two evils: war and peace.

  Horace

  War, Two, Evil

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• Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

  George Orwell

  Two, Evil, Choices

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• Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Heart, Winter, Two

  1924 Chills and Fever,'Winter Remembered'.

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• 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 be taken by man in order to sustain human life.

  Morarji Desai

  Taken, Men, Order

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• Of two Evils we take the less.

  Richard Hooker

  Two, Evil

  Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton, Walter Travers (1825). “The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker;: With a General Index: Also, Mr. Isaac Walton's Life of the Author”, p.131

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• If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Every time we have had a presidential election where there is "White or Black," you always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, so you either vote for "Satan" or the "Devil," and you catch hell with either one.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Two, White, Evil

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Of two evils choose the least.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Two, Evil

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• Well, I'm against Bush. I'm definitely not pro-Bush. I think he's a maniac and a mad man, and I think he needs to go. As far as Kerry -- you know, I think that it really came down to a choice of the lesser of two evils, and unfortunately Bush won.

  Roger Miret

  Men, Thinking, Two

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• What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word.

  John Derbyshire

  Eight, Years, Two

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• Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another.

  Pope Francis

  Order, Two, Evil

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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