Quotes About Dilemma

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them HAS to be right.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right.

But what about my car?" he asked.

I'm afraid I'm not working out according to plan, he said. But if I am really a person you shouldn't expect me to. Why did you make me without making a world for me to live in. It's as though God had made Adam and not bothered to make Eden, nor Eve. I think it's going to be frightfully difficult being me.

It's not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?

I spend all my time thinking things through. It's acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore?

How many times are you two going to have to save me from myself before this whole drama runs its course?" asked Peter. "I think…six times," said Father. "No, eight," said Mother. "You two think you're so cute," said Peter. "Mm-hm." "Yep.

I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would. My fear, your wish- both granted.

Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!)

But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.

My assignment from Graff, thought Theresa, is to become an assassin in order to protect my son. And the truly horrifying thing is that I'm not questioning whether to do it, but how. And when.

Orson Scott Card

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon