Quotes About Dilemma

You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

If stupidity got u into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren't really sure what you want.

A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

We always have a choice, Colonel Zuko. From the day we're born. The choice to do good. Or the choice to do evil. - President Kyler

you enter a state of affairs in which neither the old ways nor the new ways work satisfactorily. People are caught between the demands of conflicting systems and end up immobilized

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work.

Quick, cheap, or good, pick two.

There's always something to say on both sides, even when one's a wrong side. That's what makes it all so tiresome-makes you wish you were dead. Take the right side and stick to that.

It's easy enough to be sensible for other people. But when it comes to myself, there I am! Especially, when I want to do what I oughtn't so much that it seems as if doing what I didn't want to do MUST be doing what I ought!

Some consider this a paralyzing moral dilemma. I don't. For me, having lived through episodes of major depression, this is a no-brainer. If there is a pill that will make you well, or make it less likely you will get sick, you take it. If Prozac hasn't saved my life, it has profoundly changed it.

Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

Why did she thus obstinately cling to an ill-starred, unhappy person?

It's simple. If your life is more important than your principles, you sacrifice your principles. If your principles are more important than your life, you sacrifice your life.

There's still a question I must put to you," said the cunger woman. "Can you give up Joshua to keep him?

Usually we think a person is obligated to do something that would benefit many people, but what if that "something" is committing murder? Which is more important, doing good—or not doing wrong?

Risk, like pornography, is difficult to define, but we think we know it when we see it.