Quotes About Dilemma

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But when push comes to shove, I'll always take the writing.

but, being unable to decide yes, she decided no.

If we forgo matters of right and wrong on a human scale, we invite disaster in every door and window and via every mountain pass and harbor.

Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience.

One never learns how the witch becomes wicked or if it was the right choice for he — is it ever the right choice?

False Choice Loophole: This is the loophole-seeking strategy I most often invoke. I pose two activities in opposition, as though I have to make an either/or decision, when in fact, the two aren't necessarily in conflict.

Our lives are in the space between Isaiah Berlin's "We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail an irreparable loss" and Borges's Garden of Forking Paths, where every choice produces a quantum explosion of alternate future.

Like Buridan's Ass, the donkey that starves because it can't decide between two bales of hay, I become paralyzed by indecision.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

lo que se hace por humanidad es a veces cruelmente juzgado por la ley.

Truth telling, therefore, has to be an ultimate value, until it clashes with another ultimate value, pleasure, at which point, to state the obvious, there is conflict.

In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." — Hannah Arendt

For all this, it was essential that one take him seriously, and this was very hard to do, unless one sought the easiest way out of the dilemma between the unspeakable horror of the deeds and the undeniable ludicrousness of the man who perpetrated them, and declared him a clever, calculating liar—which he obviously was not.

he reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first

Towards evening, he reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first.

Simon frowned. "Is this the part where I break down and confess?" "Nah, you just listen. I'm talking about the old moral quandary." "Uh-huh." "Question: Would you kill someone? Answer: No, of course not. Question: Would you kill someone to save your child? Answer…?

I would rather French-kiss a live rodent than shake the man's hand, but in prison, you do what you have to.

He erred against caution, figured that it would be better to be spotted and possibly confronted than to lose Gabrielle altogether. He

You can participate or you can protect, but you really can't do both. Her fellow soldiers would understand. Some might force themselves to cross over.

So I'm a hypocrite," Myron said. "Happy?" "But that is my point," Win said. "What?" "You're not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.