Quotes About Dilemma

Basically, everything we do is bad for something, and if we were to follow all the advice on the subject the only really healthy activity would be to be dead.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you're deeply conflicted about.

Plenty people even in the middle of sufferation going pick the bad they know over the good they can only dream about, because who dream but madman and fool?

King abhorred slavery. But he struggled over how to fight it while remaining true to the religious pacifism he had inherited from his grandmother.

For a choice is always a choice among possible alternatives; and it is a rare agent for whom everything is possible. The special agony of this situation is that none of the possibilities is even harmless.

I believe that most of us cannot know what we would do, trapped in a situation that required such a seemingly no-win decision. But I do know that anyone wanting to recover from psychological trauma must face just this kind of dilemma, made yet more harrowing because her circumstance is not anything so rescuable as being locked in a house, but rather involves a solitary, unlockable confinement inside the limits of her own mind.

Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this.

This is why I didn't want to come. I've got four perfectly good humans here and I didn't want them to get killed by whatever took out DeltFall. It's not like I cared about them personally, but it would look bad on my record, and my record was already pretty terrible.

Can I ask you a question?" I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always "no" or just give in to the inevitable?

Iris: "Peri, you can't bomb the colony." Perihelion: "You are incorrect, Iris, I can bomb the colony.

I'd hacked my governor module and kept doing my job because I didn't know what else to do (except you know, a murderous rampage, but murderous rampages are overrated and interfere with one's ability to keep watching media)

It was the logical choice, it was the obvious choice, and I would still rather peel my human skin off than do it. I was going to have to do it.

With rueful resignation, she added, "Stone said I should just take you, fight it out, and get it over with." That was typical. "He gives me lousy advice, too.

2.0 said I know violence isn't the solution to everything, but in this case... In this case, yeah.

I needed to a) keep them here or b) kill them. Let's go with option b.

Nobody was touching my humans. To make sure of that I had to kill these two rogue Units. I could have pulled out at this point, sabotaged the hoppers, and got my humans out of there, leaving the rogue Units stuck on the other side of an ocean; that would have been the smart thing to do.

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas.

On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an "oh shit" moment.

It was obvious Station Security was out of its collective depth here. (At least it was obvious to me.)

The only way out of this was to kill them.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III (Act I, scene ii) Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881