Quotes About Dilemma

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there's just something wrong with your profession

There are no good guys in this game. There's only bad guys, and less bad guys.

The trouble with being all-rounder and good at most things is that it is difficult to know what to specialize in.

One of the hardest lessons we all have to learn is how few choices life gives to a civilized woman with any conscience at all.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

Most of the children were shoeless and you were confronted with the dilemma that, no matter how much money you had and no matter where you could escape to overseas, you could not save yourself from your own country. p. 134, Madness i the Family

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide. Sure, I know it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

If there's no ethically correct solution, act irrationally.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. -Abraham Lincoln, in a speech in the House of Representatives June 20th, 1848

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good." -- Abraham Lincoln, Original Quote

to be, or not to be?

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But protecting his family from Anne Frank? How difficult could that be?

Sometimes doing the right thing was hard… and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.

Felix can't act his way out of a box." "Boxes are tricky," Felix said, frowning. "And sometimes they're taped shut.

Would you prefer being baked to death under the sun or eaten alive by ants?

Should she pretend to like it, when she really did, all while pretending that she didn't?

Right is right, even when all are against it, and wrong is wrong, even when all are for it.