Quotes About Dilemma

Where is the line? We're taught to stand up for ourselves; we're taught to stand up for others we care about. But all of a sudden, there's a new line drawn by the law. You sit back, it says, and let us deal with this.

In other words, what looks like cruel and heartless from one angle might, from another, actually be the only way to protect your family. -Lucas

How could you pick, knowing that you'd have to go home and live with the choice you made?

what's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with.

Is his work vengeance? Or Justice? There is the finest line between the two and when i try to focus on it, it becomes less and less clear.

The worst part about being a prosecutor, in Matt Houlihan's opinion, 2as that even when you won, you didnt. The world was too black and white for that. ... It was like securing the bull after he'd careened through the china shop - yes, you could pen him for a whole, but you still incurred the cost of the mess he'd left in his wake.

Seems indecisive, doesn't it? Either be a period or be a comma, but make up your mind.

When I kept someone else from getting hurt, did I hurt you?

It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that there is no black or white. There are gradations of gray.

it was a chicken-and-egg conundrum: were they animals because they were in jail . . . or were they in jail because they were animals?

Entre uma boa acção e uma má acção existem mil tons de cinzento.

There are three choices for a woman like me: 1) Be sad and lonely 2) Be the one who is cheated on 3) be the other woman

There's this weird part about having kids—you know when your family is finished, and when it's not.

There's really no such thing as a right or wrong choice. We don't make decisions. Out decisions make us.

If you chose to stop a loved one's suffering—either before it began or during the process—was that murder, or mercy?

The first time you make a decision like that, a decision which rubs against all your morals, is the hardest. The second time, though, is not so hard. And that makes you feel a fraction better about the first time. And so on. But you can keep dividing and dividing and you'll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when you think back to the moment you could have said no.

Back in the twentieth century, they had established to everybody's satisfaction that 'I was just following orders' was an inadequate excuse for inhuman contact … but what can you do when the orders come from deep down in that puppet master of the unconscious?

Good afternoon, Suzy Q. Are you ladies all right?" "Nobody's all right, Officer. Nobody's all wrong, nobody's all right. We all of us stuck in the middle." He

Might as well be hung for a sheep as a goat

It's pretty hard not to like her," he says. "Even when you know you shouldn't.

What on earth shall I do

if you're prepared to eat them, you must be prepared to murder them.

Não", disse Bruno rapidamente, pois sempre tentava ser honesto e sabia que, se hesitasse mesmo que por um momento, não teria mais coragem de dizer o que pensava.

I'm not sure any cause is worth giving your life for