Quotes About Dilemma

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Cases of Conscience

For truly, what computer has not asked whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous instructions?

You are doing all you can to stay human in an inhuman situation. Noble it may be, but it isn't going to get you anywhere. And I'm not so sure about it being noble-not if it's idiotic at the same time.

Sessant'anni prima aveva più speranze, ma dormiva in un letto gelato. Cosa scegliere tra i sogni e il termosifone?

Crud. What was she supposed to do? Protect herself or the pretzels?

I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.

I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do. I just don't know.

And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives.

This is not a time for heroes because nobody will let that happen.

the conflicts made him an indecisive mediator - a man, as someone had once observed, who couldn't keep his feet out of the shit on either side because he couldn't get the fencepost out of his ass.

You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will.

Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other—they cannot both be correct.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.

He who hesitates is usually fucked!

The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't.

most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that don't give a person leave to just walk away from em... In a case like that, you just have to make the best choice you can n then pay the price.

There were other people here with at least some shreds of decency left, but working in a place like this destroyed your moral compass.