Quotes About Dilemma

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

If you can fix a problem with money, it's not really a problem.