Quotes About Dilemma

When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law—two evils of equal magnitude, between which it would be difficult to choose. It

When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law—two evils of equal magnitude, between which it would be difficult to choose.

Ninguna sociedad puede existir si el respeto a las Leyes no reina en algún grado; pero lo más seguro, para que las leyes sean respetadas, es que sean respetables. Cuando la Ley y la Moral entran en contradicción, el ciudadano se encuentra en la cruel disyuntiva de perder la noción de Moral o de perder el respeto por la Ley, dos desgracias tan grandes la una como la otra, y entre las cuales es difícil elegir.

Ninguna sociedad puede existir, si no impera en algún grado el respeto a las leyes; pero es el caso que lo que da más seguridad para que sean respetadas las leyes, es que sean respetables. Cuando la ley y la moral se encuentran en contradicción, el ciudadano se encuentra en la cruel disyuntiva de perder la noción de lo moral o de perder el respeto a la ley, dos desgracias tan grandes una como la otra y entre las cuales es difícil elegir.

Une seule question me taraude sans cesse et résume toute mon existence: Qu'y a-t-il de pire: faire l'amour sans aimer, ou aimer sans faire l'amour?

Adeline was really rather charming, she always had a man in her life, but it never worked out: either they were nice but she didn't find them very exciting; or they were exciting but she didn't find them particularly nice, or they were neither nice nor exciting and she wondered why she was with them at all. She found a way of making the exciting men nicer and that was by leaving them. But then, they weren't exciting anymore either.

It would probably be better to have a ruler who didn't sell people or bend his own laws. For the moment, however, this man was perhaps just the best of the wrong answers available.

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

People reading the Bible for the first time are often surprised to discover how much human drama it contains. Almost every conceivable human dilemma and conflict is reflected in its pages.

Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

Sometimes we face "gray areas," things that aren't necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.

Well?" the man shouted. "With or against?" No one replied, and

Quando ti trovi davanti a due decisioni, lancia in aria una moneta. Non perché farà la scelta giusta al posto tuo, ma perché nell'esatto momento in cui la moneta è in aria, saprai improvvisamente in cosa stai sperando.

No one had ever put such a significant question to me so directly. After a few minutes (which seemed like hours), I said, "Well, if it has to be one or the other, I'll put Jesus Christ in the box." It

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

she knew she would go on with her false, fancy colourings of this nothing as soon as she saw him again; she had just been practicing them. "What's the idea?" she wondered. "What makes me tell such lies? Why shouldn't I be just myself?" And then she thought, "But which one is myself?

When law and morality contradict each other the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his sense of morality or losing his respect of the law. — Frederic Bastiat

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

Maybe Jared was sick today. He lived, I knew thanks to Spoon, on the second floor of Barna House. I could go and see if he was there. The other option was to . . . to what? I could go find Ema at the deli, but then it might be harder to come back on campus without a lot of questions. Might

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It was dark out. Ray debated whether he should just head home and go to bed or hit a bar so seedy it was called Tetanus. Tough call when you have so many options. He

You can't ride two horses with one behind.