“Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”

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

Jerry Garcia (1942–1995) American musician and member of the Grateful Dead

“Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.”

Andrzej Sapkowski book The Last Wish

“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 (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister

“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”

Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) American theologian

“What I'm saying here is not, I agree, poetry,
as poems should be written rarely and reluctantly,
under unbearable duress and only with the hope
that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.”

Max Lerner (1902–1992) American journalist and educator

“Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.”

Friedrich Kellner (1885–1970) German Justice inspector

“The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.”

Jim Butcher (1971) American author