Quotes About Dilemma

And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

Should I push him or should I throw him? Howie asks. Do what comes naturally, I yelled back. I don't know, he says. This is a very unnatural thing.

The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.

The sanctity of the law . . . and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

He (Connor) will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do. - Risa

s]ometimes doing the right thing means doing the wrong thing first.

It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.' -Connor

He's a conundrum- and there's still a piece missing from the puzzle. Whatever that piece was, there was a part of me telling me not to get involved- that it was too much to handle. That you shouldn't go out on a limb unless you're absolutely sure the limb can support your weight.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

What's that expression? The devil you know is better than the one you don't?

Something's wrong!" he said, which was the understatement of the year.

Between them, the baby still cries. It's like a game of steal the bacon, where no one wants to take the bacon.

and that dizzying gap between what she should feel and what she did feel was tearing her apart.

Tell me, Connor, is this the first time you've been pregnant?' 'What?' 'Just answer the question, yes or no.' 'Yes. I mean no! Shut up! What kind of stupid-ass question is that?' Cam smiles. 'You see? You're damned no matter how you answer. By playing both sides, Proactive Citizenry keeps people focused on choosing between two different kinds of unwinding, making people forget that the real question...' 'Is whether or not someone should be unwound at all.

Therein lies the paradox of the profession, those who wish to have the job should not have it.....and those who most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.

Honey, I'd never take an unwound part for myself. But when they told me the only way to save my boy's life was to basically gut him and replace all his internal organs with someone else's, I didn't even hesitate. So my conscience will ache for the rest of my life, but that's a small price to pay for having my son still on this earth.

Itulah yang disebut undang-undang: tebakan cerdas mengenai yang benar dan salah. [P. 235]

But what good did that do now? It was as if they existed in two different universes. Dwelling on such feelings couldn't lead them anywhere good. Yet still she entertained the thought. She even considered saying those words to him again . . . but she held her tongue, as a good scythe must do.

It is the most difficult thing a person can be asked to do. And knowing that it is for the greater good doesn't make it any easier.

It's always the lesser of two evils. I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

It didn't take long for ethics to be crushed by greed.