Quotes About Dilemma

Known throughout his career for penetrating insights and a lack of romanticism, he wrote that "one of humanity's oldest and most recalcitrant human dilemmas" consists of the choice between "a limited collaboration with evil, in the interests of its ultimate mitigation" and "an uncompromising, heroic but suicidal resistance to it.

Doing the right thing often resulted in living the wrong thing forever. -Christian, Marquess of Eastrerbrook

I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

That old honorary Cuban had simplified the question all to hell when he'd said that a moral act is something you feel good after. Conversely, you feel bad after an immoral act. But what about the act that is neither moral nor immoral, Papa? How are you supposed to feel then?

I'm not really sorry. But I'm not absolutely unsorry.

The truth was she couldn't do ugly things. She was too beautiful.

I had the same feeling I did when I had watched an imago emerge, and then to have to kill it. I mean, the beauty confuses you, you don't know what you want to do any more, what you should do.

Victims? Whatever you call people who are made to suffer without being given the choice. That sounds like an excellent definition of man.

Try to leave one alive… … but do not try too hard. (The Life-Taker)

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

Murder must be punished, but murder can also be justified.

The fear of getting caught was not driven by the fear of paying the price. Rather, it was the fear of having to stop.

her lies, something came over him, maybe the Holy Spirit, and he just couldn't

Pacheco had entered her apartment with thoughts of a pleasant drink with a pretty lady. He left with Myers's courier bag and backpack and no clear idea of what to do next.

It was the classic dilemma for women rulers. Should they marry and have children

they were caught between the river and a bog.

She had done everything possible to prevent Mary's execution until she felt it could no longer be avoided

it was a feeling with nowhere to go. Was that what love was, and how it came to you--leaving you no options for its use?

Even I knew better than to sleep with a ghost. And it was the wrong time for a moral dilemma.

Chlípnost dohání i ty nejlepÅ¡í muže tak daleko, že jednají zp?sobem, naprosto neodpovídajícím jejich charakteru.

Quando chegou a Portland, já tirara as suas conclusões. Era um obstetra; trazia bebês ao mundo. Os colegas diziam que isso era a obra de Deus. E era um aborteiro; também salvava as mães. Os colegas diziam que isso era a obra do demônio; mas era tudo a obra de Deus para Wilbur Larch. Como a Sra. Maxwell comentara: A alma de um verdadeiro médico não pode deixar de ser ampla e generosa.

In modern times, in my opinion, either everything is a moral question or there are no more moral questions. Nowadays, there are no compromises or there are only compromises. Never influenced, I keep my vigil. There is no letting up.

Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.