Quotes About Dilemma

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

I want to do what's right. But how can I, when I am faced with only impossible choices?

Siempre hay alguien que elige, y otro que tiene que aceptar la elección.

Which is colder, the hand or the gun?

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

Freedom, security, convenience - choose two

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said "her brothers got a moustache!"

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?