Quotes About Dilemma

You wouldn't know right from wrong." There was no trace of anger in his voice. "The only way a man knows right from wrong is when he makes a choice.

One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both. At

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, but I was right

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape.

But the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do, I went on, is to actually do the right thing.

A devil is the one who knows what is right but will not do it.

People who wrestle with their consciences usually go for two falls out of three.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Christine, what is your job? Is it: To make 25 calls per hours? Or To give callers courteous satisfaction, no brushoff. It can not be both.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

But what he no longer had was a conscience he could live with.

He was supposed to get through dinner not thinking about the only things he could think about. He was supposed to do this forever.

Silk aveva qualcosa che la faceva sempre tornare all'infanzia e alla paura che ha il bimbo precoce di essere visto per quello che è; ma anche alla paura che ha il bimbo precoce di non essere sufficientemente guardato. Temeva di essere smascherata, moriva dalla voglia di essere al centro dell'attenzione: ecco il suo dilemma.

Andy Rooney, the late commentator on the 60 Minutes television show, once said, "I've decided I'm against abortion. I think it's murder. But I have a dilemma in that I much prefer the pro-choice to the pro-life people. I'd much rather eat dinner with a group of the former.