Quotes About Dilemma

The most obvious question which this study suggest is: How far in a State can a recognized moral wrong safely be compromised?

Black soldiers found themselves in a dilemma. On the one hand they were being trained to risk their lives in defense of the country, while on the other hand they were being told to accept their role as inferior citizens.

If I had to choose between justice and disorder, on the one hand, and injustice and order, on the other, I would always choose the latter.

Métase en berenjenales.

somewhat like the ancient Greek "liar's paradox," in which the truth of the statement "This statement is false" cannot be determined. (If the statement is true, then it's also false, and vice versa.) By coming up with statements

Finally, on the day that he was scheduled to make the big announcement, Amelio called Jobs in. He needed an answer. "Steve, do you just want

Would you cure your own child from being schizophrenic if you knew that, if you didn't, he would become a Vincent van Gogh and transform the world of art? (Don't forget: Van Gogh committed suicide.

My heart says yes, but my reason says no.

Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.

But I am not a monster because I kill. Killing is easy. I am a monster because I accept the hard choices. (Frank Moses)

I should ask, in the first place, whether or not I wish to purchase a solution to a problem that I do not have.

Of two evils choose neither.

Patty: I'll be the good guy. Shermy: I'll be the bad guy. Patty: What are you going to be, Charlie Brown? Charlie Brown: I'll be sort of in-between; I'll be a hypocrite!

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Following one good to the end may be catastrophic, not because it isn't a good, but because there are others which can't be sacrificed without evil.

There is, it seems, a law in things that if a man is compelled to choose between two good actions, mutually exclusive, the one which he chooses to neglect will in course of time avenge itself on him. Rightly considered, this is a comfortable if chastening thought, for it implies that the nature of good is such that it can never, not even for some other mode of itself, be neglected. If ever it is, for whatever admirable reasons, set on one side it will certainly return.

This is what he has always wanted, or so he had thought, but now here he is, in the middle of a story of his own and looking for the exit, and realizing all the exits are blocked and then realizing that an exit is not what he needs.

They're going to shoot him. You have to say something. But how can you? You don't have any lines.

I killed one man to save one hundred thousand.

Sin is rarely without complication

We need him dead or in jail, and I'm probably a crappy murderer. – Libby

The bull, I acknowledged grimly, could be in either direction, since I hadn't seen where he'd run once I closed my eyes. I could only choose between the bull that would take me back and the bull that would take me forward.

I could only choose between the bull that would take me back and the bull that would take me forward. And so I walked on.

Don't fall in love with her again, a voice within me warned. You never fell out of love with her, another voice countered with an evil laugh.