Quotes About Dilemma

When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

Good drama is all about creating conflict.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.

Active evil is better than passive good

A difficulty for every solution.

Sometimes there are no good choices for government.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.