Quotes About Dilemma

The king, the priest, the rich man—who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It's a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers.

He dipped the quill into the inkpot, leaned over the first parchment, paused, looked up. "Would you prefer me to sign Yollo or Hugor Hill ?" Brown Ben crinkled up his eyes. "Would you prefer to be returned to Yezzan's heirs or just beheaded?" The dwarf laughed and signed the parchment, Tyrion of House Lannister.

It is a terrible thing we contemplate, a vile thing. Yet we who presume to rule must do vile things for the good of the realm, howevermuch it pains us.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical...

She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.

To oversimplify, we overwhelmingly search out opportunities to play Stag Hunts rather than outsmart each other in Prisoner's Dilemmas.

Once I put it down I couldn't pick it back up.

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.

Answer me this: is it worse to end a stupid task falsely or to continue a stupid task honestly?

To believe, to act, and to have events confound you—I grant you, that is hard to bear. But to believe, and not to act, or to act in a way that every fiber of your soul held was wrong—how can you not see? That is what would have been reprehensible.

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

To make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

Judas needed the money for a sick friend.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Between two evils, I always picked the one I never tried before.