Quotes About Dilemma

'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

I always hated acting but I kept on acting.

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

Heroism in a bad cause.

Some will say, 'I wish I had a different choice. I wish there was a different candidate!' Listen: you have two choices. You have Donald and you have Hillary. And you have no other choice.

Why I stick my neck out for you, when all you ever bring me is trouble, is beyond my capacity to comprehend.

I am sorry I cannot think of a compliment to pay you-without lying, that is.

To be, or not to be, that is the Question:

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

Much better hang wrong fellow than no fellow.

At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish.

That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness and for the bulk of mankind happiness was better.

But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it.

Tanr? bana sinekleri kovay?m diye bir kuyruk vermi?; ama ke?ke sinekler de olmasayd?, kuyru?um da.

Most people want to be good, but not that good and not all the time.

It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant–it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery–and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.