Quotes About Dilemma

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

Who will bell the cat?

When anything and everything goes, there are no real values, no definite right and wrong.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

After a bit, Mr. Leon said, 'This idea that you don't necessarily act in your own best interests struck me very hard when I first read Dostoevsky. Each man may choose to do things against his own interests because it preserves his personality.

Most people seem to believe that not only is it permissible to turn the train down the spur, it is actually required—morally obligatory.

Even now when at the end, with nothing left to lose, I cannot identify what I could never choose.

On ne sait jamais que manger ; faire un choix, c'es anéantir tous les autres.

Through some strange alchemy no one can quite explain, the number of salaried paper pushers ultimately seems to expand, and more and more employees find themselves...working forty or even fifty hours on paper but effectively working fifteen hours...since the rest of their time is spent organizing or attending motivational seminars, updating their Facebook profiles, or downloading TV box sets.

is. I think our fundamental Anthropocene dilemma is that we have achieved global impact but have no mechanisms for global self-control. So, to the (debatable) extent that we are like some kind of global organism, we are still a pretty clumsy one, crashing around with little situational awareness,

Hoe zei jij dat ook alweer, over de wrede keuze: de woordeloosheid levend en levendig houden, of onder woorden brengen.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

If she was making the right and courageous decisions, he thought, she was nonetheless unhappy and somewhat resentful about doing it

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins. Researchers who tally the results of this immortal race have a name for it: history.

What I'm saying is that it's easy to take the high road so long as there aren't any stakes. But the minute you've got something to lose, a man'll do all sorts of things.

No parent should have to decide. After all, no-one could anticipate what was best for the child.

Every time I have to make a choice," he said, "I feel the weight of making the right one—not just for the moment, not just for me, but for how my decisions will affect everyone. I'm terrified I'll do something, or not do something, and the consequences will be terrible.

You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you have my word as a scoundrel, which, I know, opens up a rather confusing paradox that I have neither the time nor inclination to disentangle.

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.