Quotes About Dilemma

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

So? Bob said. Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved. Bob, I said. You can't just go around killing people. I know. That's why you should do it. No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die. Yes, Kitai said in a patient tone. Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right - but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become.

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them.

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did. That was, he supposed, human nature.

you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient.

I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time.

There's always a choice," I said. "That's the thing, man. There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less.

Andi's eyes widened. Bob. . .is it really him? Yes, but he works for the bad guys now, Bob said. It's probably safest to shoot him.

It's easy to do the right thing when it doesn't cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall." Fitz

you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible.

When you have a problem, you have a problem," I said thoughtfully. I nodded at Cristos. "When you have two problems, sometimes one of them is a solution in disguise.

life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right—but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become.

I would have to call a cab. It wasn't the most heroic way to ride to the rescue, but walkers can't be choosers.

Yes," Aquitaine said quietly. "The Legions will pay a terrible price so that the residents of Riva can flee. But if they do not, the city will fall into chaos, and the civilians will die." He shook his head. "This way, perhaps half of the legionares will survive the retreat. Even odds. If we are forced to defend the city to our last man, they will all die, Countess. For nothing. And they know it." He nodded. "They'll fight.