Sentence examples for lesser goods from inspiring English sources

Yet this eschatological hope does not eliminate intermediate hopes for lesser goods, even for material blessings.

People stood in that gravel for hours for a reason: empires have been forged with lesser goods than this brisket.

This is a reasonable principle: even a small prospect of enormous good can swamp the prospect of more probable but much lesser goods.

We might say that rights "trump" these lesser goods.

By hypothesis, it will be best to honor rights when this conflicts with the promotion of lesser goods.

Virtuous activity makes a life happy not by guaranteeing happiness in all circumstances, but by serving as the goal for the sake of which lesser goods are to be pursued.

The lesser good news is that some of the automatic or "sequestration" cuts in non-military (why does anyone use the euphemism "defense"?) spending for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 have been reduced.

(Even a preference for "one's own acknowledg'd lesser good" wouldn't be unreasonable, on his view).

It cannot be true, then, that it is not contrary to reason for an agent to prefer his lesser good to his greater, as Hume claimed.

We need to find a principle that allows me to choose my own lesser good over a (significantly) greater good for someone else and then to show that this principle cannot be reasonably rejected.

'Tis as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledg'd lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than for the latter".