Quotes About Dilemma

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

A boy with Somebody-else's pork pie! Stop him!

If you knew what a conflict goes on in the business mind, when the business mind is divided between good-natured impulse and business appearances, you would be amused, Mr. Darnay.

Jarndyce mot Jarndyce maler videre. Dette fugleskremselet av en rettssak er med tiden blitt så innfløkt at det ikke er en levende sjel som vet hva den går ut på.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I

How could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day?

I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I

It seems as if we can't go right, or do right, or be righted

No less a question than this: Whether he should allow himself to fall in love with Pet?

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

That sort of calculus is easy enough if the potential good is to unidentified people. It's easy to dismiss a faceless abstraction. It's much harder to look a real person in the eye and say: 'For my belief in the inviolability of the eight-cell embryo you must die.' That's often what the 'saviour sibling' cases boil down to.

The banks cannot hold back or withdraw from the dilemma in which their mode of doing business has placed them. They must carry the load to save their margins.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Life: that narrow space between a rock and a hard place.

Reason. If you follow it far enough, it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

If you had to decide between being given a million dollars and eating tacos, which would you choose — corn or flour?

Work on Monday?! My mind is telling me no, but my wallet says yes.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!

Vedete, così la penso io: se al bene che vorrei fare si avvicina troppo un grande male, allora preferisco non fare affatto il bene. Perché il male noi sappiamo benissimo qual è, il bene molto meno.»

The tickets might be returned perhaps, but where would she go?

Quando o cristão bota a corda no pescoço, o diabo se pendura nos ombros dele.

Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

What would Tullia have done?