Quotes About Dilemma

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you could do anything, so you probably did nothing, frozen with indecision.

The truth is there are always three choices: the right one, the wrong one and the one that is called "No Choice". As you may guessed, the "No Choice" one is a rule of a bad interpreter.

For every choice there is a tragedy

Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.

Paradox: Pinocchio says "My nose will grow" if it doesn't he is lying but it didn't grow and if it does he is telling the truth and it did?

The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile.

The moral high ground was at the top of a slippery slope—

Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move.