Quotes About Dilemma

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

trueholding n. the act of trying to keep an amazing discovery to yourself, fighting the urge to shout about it from the rooftops because you're afraid that it'll end up being diluted and distorted, and will no longer have been created just for you.

ozurie feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have.

driven crazy by not knowing which'll destroy us first, the H-bomb or the wrong fork at the dinner table,

The way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation.

John Lescroart

Diffie was one of a legion of bright young men who, were it not for the Vietnam War, would probably not have considered the idea of military-funded basic research. But it seemed like a reasonable compromise when facing the equally dismal alternatives of being shipped to Indochina, fleeing to Canada, or going to jail.

I can understand why they're doing it but understanding isn't the same as supporting.

A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong...

Call it the bipolar's dilemma: Take a chance and we risk losing control of our brains. Play it safe and we isolate ourselves from humanity.

I picked up a secondhand copy—$7.99—and read the text on the back: "Either, then, one is to live aesthetically or one is to live ethically." My heart was pounding. There was a book about this?

The right choice was usually the more difficult one.

Did two good people do something they knew was wrong because there was some kind of magical chemistry involved? Or was it plain old human fallibility, weakness in the face of temptation?

Godwin and Shepard (1979) pointed out a decade ago that policy scientists were doing the equivalent of "Forcing Squares, Triangles and Ellipses into a Circular Paradigm" by using the commons-dilemma model without serious attention to whether or not the variables in the empirical world conformed to the theoretical model.

Saving myself would mean destroying him.

Flight or fight? What kind of pathetically damaged animal decides on...neither?

This feels like a critical fork in my road-success lies to the left, moral integrity to the right; are they ever on the same road?

Wainwright looks like she knows what she's doing is wrong, and it'll never be right inside her head again.

Every question is the answer to someone else's dilemma.

It was a morally complex equation.

Moral compromises don't stop happening even when everyone involved is trying to do the right thing.

You paid your money and you picked your poison.