Quotes About Dilemma

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

We're in a tight spot!

Morality starts as a simple concept and becomes complicated.

Society frowned on killing your best friend. In this case, it would just have to make an exception.

when you make a sequence of wrong choices, eventually you're left with no choice at all.

The responsible thing to do, the Head of the House thing to do, would be to send her on her way. This wasn't our fight and there was no profit to be made here. We were an emerging House, and we had neither the financial resources nor the manpower of MII. If I helped her, I would be putting all of us in danger. But she was a friend. She'd kept us all from dying at Nevada's wedding, and when I looked at her, my chest hurt.

What is it? Did Timmy fall down a well?" "Quack!

The concepts of right or wrong are always consequential. It can't be situational or it's not right or wrong.

He shook his head. "Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one." "How do you decide what is a 'small' wrong? Let's say, you buy the safety of many with the life of a child. That child means everything to her parents. You devastated them. There is no greater wrong you can

He shook his head. "Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one." "How do you decide what is a 'small' wrong? Let's say, you buy the safety of many with the life of a child. That child means everything to her parents. You devastated them. There is no greater wrong you can do to them. Why would that be a 'small' evil?

Look, it can be fast, good, or cheap. You can have any two but never all three." "Why?" "It's the law of the universe.

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.

The serving girl—plump, round and rosy-cheeked—moved quickly between the tables. The soldiers smiled at her. She felt torn between the desire to smile back at them, because they were young, and the fear of getting a bad reputation, because they were the enemy—so she frowned and tightly pursed her lips, without, however, quite managing to erase the two dimples on her cheeks which showed her secret pleasure.

A less courageous person would have felt that it was too late, they would have felt ashamed, they would think wellI don't want this, I know I shall hate it, it's all wrong, but I'm so involved now I'll have to put up with it, and I know that later on I'll keep on wishing that I'd had the nerve to say no, even at the last minute....

She must not be tempted by truthfulness, she must play the game out to the end.

That too was part of a machine from which she had not, for all her 'feelings' and her 'principles', the spirit or the courage really to escape.

How can I even think of such a fate . . . Better to commit murder.

She thought, I shall never tell it to Jack, the strange love which I feel for this doomed man, as if he were a dog lying in the road with a broken back.

Ah'm thinking about shoutin 'stop' but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah'm already aw the junky ah'm ever gaunny be.

He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae about that. The big problem is, he's a mate na aw. Whit kin ye dae?

How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae?

Then whit? - Git a job. Or git oan a scheme. - No gaunnae stey oan n take Highers? - Naw. - Ye should. You could go tae University. - Whit fir? Geoff had to think for a while. He had recently graduated with a degree in English Literature and was on the dole. So were most of his fellow graduates. - It's a good social life, he said.

There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatable with the greater, the lesser must give way.