Quotes About Dilemma

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign.

Einen Augenblick lang fixierte er ihn, als schwanke er zwischen Mord und Kniefall.

Which came out of the opened door—the lady or the tiger?

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Maxime estaba orgulloso de su oficio, pero también sentía cierta vergûenza: "Me disgusta la idea de que toda esta felicidad que les doy a mis animales vaya a parar bajo un cuchillo. Me da la impresión de que los traiciono; pero, por otro lado, no sé hacer nada más y no me queda más remedio que ganarme la vida".

Now the crucial question no longer seemed to be what life was, but what one was to do with this valueless, yet somehow uniquely valuable life?

Désormais, la question essentielle n'était plus de savoir ce qu'était la vie, mais de décider de ce qu'il fallait faire de cette vie sans valeur, et pourtant, en quelque sorte, d'un prix unique.

He wrangled late into the night with his senior tutor in theology over the concept of the doctrine of the lesser evil and the higher goal; that the end may justify the means and yet not damn the soul, providing the parameters of the impermissible are never breached.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

L'homme moderne, voulant échapper à tous les maux, tombe finalement dans tous.

Being good or evil is a choice.

You see the dilemma?" Ham asked. "I see an idiot," Breeze mumbled.

If you had to shoot a man, society had already failed.

I didn't say Tvlakv isn't a bastard. He's just a likable bastard." He hesitated, then grimaced. "Those are the worst kind. When you kill them, you end up feeling guilty for it.

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?" Elend was silent. "I make my own choice," he finally said. "And I leave the others to make their own as well.

Because they don't want to make choices anymore, he thought. Choices can be hard.

Have you ever had to choose between two equally distasteful choices?" "Every day I choose to keep breathing.

Sometimes," Dalinar said, "the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?

There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering.

Well, I didn't wanna kill someone in cold blood—" "That's good, I suppose." "—but there weren't no fire around to light her with first.

What honor can we find on a battlefield while our people starve?

You are striding atop a very thin wall, my friend. Loyalty is a difficult thing to divide.