Quotes About Dilemma

Qué decidirías cuando hacer feliz a la persona a la que amas significa también destrozarte el corazón?

You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.

The war between the ideal and the real, between what's right and what's convenient, between the larger good and personal interest is the contest that unfolds in the soul of every American.

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

I saw the right way and approved it, but followed the wrong, until an emotion came along to provide some force.

There's The Utilitarian Grill, serving only sweeteners (welfare), and The Deontological Diner, serving only salts (rights). Those are your options.

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

So, basically if we keep trying to save the country and maybe the world from a bunch of murderous assholes with outer space weapons, then we're the bad guys?" "In a nutshell." "Then, hey ... let's be bad guys.

Generally, if you see Joe Ledger show up pointing a gun at you, I guess you start reexamining your conscience.

The line between immediate need and breaking the law is blurry at the best of times. And I'm not talking about the laws of states or nations. I'm talking about the laws of basic humanity.

Strange, sometimes, how you make a particular choice. When it's not a specific thought or line of argument that decides you, but more a set of jumbled sensations that changes your mind.

What do you think? Is the middle way a trifle wider?" "I was going to suggest right." "Let's go left, then. We've both got a terrible record at this sort of thing. We're almost certainly both wrong.

Left or right, which will you take? For both of them your heart will break. One is cruel, one is fair, One a passage, one a snare. Choose the one that hides the light, And you will know your path is right.

Piracy is our only option.

Sono troppo stanco di compromessi. O forse, sono troppo stanco e basta.

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

Cómo diablos construir ese paraíso, si la vileza humana mata en embrión cualquier utopía?

Pero estaba dispuesta a cambiar de principios, de amigos y de personalidad? ¿Estaba dispuesta a dar el escandalazo? ¿Verdad que no?

era imposible quedar bien con Dios y con el diablo.

Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes you more human by making life more, not less, difficult. When you become more aware, the area of moral choice is widened. You can be a better man; you can also be a worse. Literature will not determine which. It is the equivalent of neither grace nor good works.

it's pointless to think in moral terms when everything is permissible. We have become the people we detest. We have lost the capacity to imagine what is forbidden We have been freed, in other words, from our own hypocrisy.

If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want[?]