Quotes About Dilemma

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same.

We might be criminals, but we're not totally immoral

We can't leave him here, the smell will kill us . . . and we can't carry him out the door and drag him up the street, either. We can't just say, 'You'll never guess what we found in our basement this morning . . .

You save someone. You kill them.

We might be criminals, but we're not totally immoral. - Arthur Berg

Cómo puede quedarse allí sentada dispuesta a morir mientras yo quiero seguir viviendo? [...] ¿Por qué quiero vivir? No debería y, sin embargo, quiero vivir.

One woman I knew decided, with her husband, to abort a planned pregnancy when a crucial three-day exam was scheduled near her due date. I don't know whether she even asked if the exam could be rescheduled.

I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

Consider the Jewish joke, with the old lady running distractedly along the seashore: Help! My son the doctor is drowning. Amusing, I suppose. Her pride, I suppose, is amusing: it is greater than her love.

the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.

What is decision anyway?

How often have the frustrations of second-class citizenship and humiliating status led us into blind outrage against each other and the real cause and course of our dilemma been ignored?

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.

it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.

It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!