Quotes About Dilemma

Man asks himself: what is this solitary thing that remains to me—my life, my disillusioned life? How has it come to being nothing but this? And the answer is the discovery of man's trajectory, of the dialectical series of his experiences, which, I repeat, though it might have been different, has been what it has been, and which must be known because it is... the transcendent reality.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

In critical moments, to declare oneself neutral is to be exposed to the wrath of both the contending parties.

Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Hmm. I'm tempted. But what works against my temptation is the ancient junior high code of Omerta. Nobody squeals on nobody, no matter what.

As Hobbes saw clearly, people don't have to be evil to get into collective action problems. They just have to be human.

The question is, if we already know what the right and the wrong answers are to moral questions, prior to the formulation of an abstract principle, what is the point of formulating the principle?

Fireheart, of course not. But . . . well, I think there might be something wrong with Snowkit.

You can't always do the right thing. No matter how much you want to.

He could keep the love of his father or he could save his Clan. What choice was that? Was this what he'd abandoned Dovewing and his kits for?

No, Fireheart, of course not. But . . . well, I think there might be something wrong with Snowkit.

Have they given up the warrior code?" Hollypaw's breath was coming in fast gulps. They've given up more than the code. Jaypaw glanced at the sky. "Is

Sometimes the right choice can be the hardest one.

I know a helluva lot. I'm not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It's confusing.

There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one

I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be.

O bien poseer un destino propio o bien equivaler a un número: ésa es la disyuntiva que hoy nos viene impuesta -ciertamente por la fuerza- a todos y cada uno de nosotros, pero el inclinarse por lo uno o por lo otro es algo que corresponde decidir a cada uno por sí mismo

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other.

Except that when it came to choosing between smiles and thanks on the one hand, and the good of society on the other, this driver knew what it had to be.

The hardest thing is where to begin--or, perhaps, why?

Although her instinct was to answer it, she