Carolyn Wells Quotes

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

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

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

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

We live in a world of competing sorrows ... to govern is to choose.

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

I hope I never have to pick between all these things I get to do.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

The lesser evil is also evil.

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

Of two Evils we take the less.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

The girl or the world, you see someone gotta lose. I thought I could have it all, do I really gotta choose?

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

"So you have your price."... "Your soul for a cookie."