Quotes About Dilemma

I watched as that kid died. In his last few seconds there was pure terror in his eyes. You can't do that. You can't do that to a person. I don't care what anybody tells me, I don't care how many people go crazy and die, I don't care if the whole shuck human race ends. Even if that was the only thing that had to happen to find the cure, I'd still be against it.

One must know the problem better than the solution, or the solution becomes the problem.

The ends justify the means. It should be WICKED's official logo. They should have a giant banner draped across the front entrance.

Shank's got more guts than I've fried up from every pig and cow in the last year." He paused, as if expecting a laugh, but none came. "How stupid is this—he saves Alby's life, kills a couple of Grievers, and we're sitting here yappin' about what to do with him. As Chuck would say, this is a pile of klunk.

Killing another human. It wasn't easy to accept.

Choose right now or they both die!" Thomas opened his eyes and stepped forward. Then he pointed at Brenda and said the two most foul words to ever pass through his lips. "Kill her.

Like I said, they wanted to test us, see how we'd react to what they call the Variables, and to a problem that has no solution.

Saving the most people means we can't help anybody if we're dead.

don't think there is a right or wrong anymore," Thomas said, hearing the numbness in his own voice. He desperately wanted sleep. "Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

Brenda frowned, then focused on Thomas. "You're—we're—doing the right thing." "I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore," Thomas said, hearing the numbness in his own voice. He desperately wanted sleep. "Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

They now knew they were being tested somehow, put through WICKED's trials.

The choice is yours. Certain death, or death uncertain. Choose.

Would appreciate your convoying (sic) the following to Joe DiMaggio in the event the Yankees don't pay more than $37,000: 'We cordially invite you to try out with the 143rd Infantry, 36th Division. The pay is only $21 a month but that's better than nothing. Please advise. P.S. Why settle for yesterday's salary?

Dear me, whatever shall we do with mother?

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

To paraphrase Merton in his book The Sign of Jonas, all of my training pointed one way, and all of my ideals the other.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

If the moral senses can conflict with one another and with what prudent action requires under particular circumstances, then living a good life requires striking a delicate balance among those senses and between them and prudent self-interest.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

Choices have to be made…before we are left with none.

morality is often the first casualty to progress.

So we're damned if we do and damned if we don't." She shrugged. "That pretty much sums up quantum physics.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.