Quotes About Dilemma

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Perhaps the world is not as a simple a place as I would like it to be. No one is following any of the principles that they are supposed to.

Mais n'exagérons rien, puisque c'est là le problème: je suis ici et je sais bien que j'accepte tous les arguments, au prix de pouvoir vivre

I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

Sometimes, I just wonder why we have to choose between the way we live and wanting to do something else with our lives.

It was a frightening thing to do, but if one did nothing -- well, that was frightening too.

How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.

The world that we encounter in ordinary experience is one in which we are faced by choices equally absolute, the realisation of some of which must inevitably mean the sacrifice of others.

I was suddenly stricken with a feeling of black despair, hopelessly muddled by what was right and wrong. Nothing seemed clear cut; we did evil in the name of good, and good was done in the name of evil. [Chapter 27, page 306]

Every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing.

again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.

To explode or to implode – said Qfwfq – that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to expand one's energies in space without restraint, or to crush them into a dense inner concentration.

where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third,

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain: She's Ron's sister. But she's ditched Dean! She's still Ron's sister. I'm his best mate! That'll make it worse. If I talked to him first- He'd hit you. What if I don't care? He's your best mate!

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

The world's repeatedly saved by people whether right or wrong just goddammit not wanting to get into it.

Do you think me weak, flawed? Do you hate me for setting my Inquisitorial role above the needs of one agonised being?

The end justifies the means?" He raised his eyebrows and laughed. "Now that's different. That kind of thinking gets a man into trouble. There are some means that no end will ever justify. But fighting dirty, occasionally, is no bad thing. Neither's breaking the rules. Provided you remember one thing." "Which is?" "You have to understand the rules in the first place if you're going to break them.

Truth is amoral. So you said, but in serving your fine truth, invader, you make yourself immoral.