Quotes About Dilemma

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Right and wrong are both very subjective, it's all grey.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the white.