Quotes About Dilemma

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

The hardest challenge being an HR is that sometimes you have to be the LAWYER, the JUDGE and the HANGMAN.

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

Una vez había visto volar por encima del estuario a una garza que intentaba, mientras estaba en el aire, tragarse una anguila que acababa de pescar. La anguila, a su vez, luchaba por escapar del gaznate de la garza, y se le veía un cuarto, la mitad o, en ocasiones, tres cuartos del cuerpo colgando. La indecisión que expresaban ambas criaturas era lastimosa. Se habían propuesto demasiado.

Salvatore threw up his hands. What's to become of us? We can't go on like this. Yes, we can go on like this, said Cesare. We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.

He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.

A decision is a judgment. It is a choice between alternatives. It is rarely a choice between right and wrong. It is at best a choice between "almost right" and "probably wrong"—but much more often a choice between two courses of action neither of which is provably more nearly right than the other.

a country like China is accustomed to making difficult choices that Americans might not dream of considering

St. Augustine says, "If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

If humility were not self-forgetfulness, any virtuous person would have the practical dilemma of either directing his attention to his own virtue, which naturally leads to pride, or denying it, which would be a lie.

Modernism and Fundamentalism are popular—they are two quick and easy answers to a complex question.

But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside

A problem is merely a solution waiting to be found.

Herein lies the core learning dilemma that confronts organizations: we learn best from experience but we never directly experience the consequences of many of our most important decisions. The most critical decisions made in organizations have systemwide consequences that stretch over years or decades.

Herein lies the core learning dilemma that confronts organizations: we learn best from experience but we never directly experience the consequences of many of our most important decisions.

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The freedom to choose not to choose. Choosing nothing instead of something.

moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.

So the researcher's central dilemma exists in an especially acute form in psychology: either the animal is not like us, in which case there is no reason for performing the experiment; or else the animal is like us, in which case we ought not to perform on the animal an experiment that would be considered outrageous if performed on one of us. Another