Quotes About Dilemma

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square.

We are faced with the dilemma of how or if we demonstrate where we stand on critical issues and corresponding social ills. We are also bombarded with so many instances of inhumanity that it can be difficult to determine what part we play in human progress.

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.

I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there's so much worth saving.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.