Quotes About Dilemma

La moral es la munición de la guerra. ?Moral no es más que otra palabra que se usa para todo. ¿Qué quiere decir? ¿Valentía o sanguinariedad, o no hacer preguntas indiscretas, o quiere decir lo que cada día nos dicen que quiere decir?

He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Life is full of tough choices between less-than-perfect alternatives.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

That was how she had felt most of her life. Caught in the middle. Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.

Equidistant. Not aligned to one bank or the other...caught in the middle. Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.

Equidistant. Not aligned to one bank or the other. That was how she had felt most of her life. Caught in the middle. Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.

You always have a choice. Life is full of choices

Lives are lost in order to save more lives. That is what the society is fighting.

But the steep drop in violent crime presented police with a problem. If making arrests is the only way to advance in your career, but crime is dropping, what do you do? Furthermore, what to do if the only way to make a living wage is to rack up as much overtime as possible?

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

We have two candidates with the highest unfavorables ever recorded and a majority of voters who feel stuck voting against, rather than for, someone. Both parties nominated the only person who could possibly lose to the other. Voters are agonizing about whether they can trust either candidate.

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact

For Spenser, the perpetual human dilemma seems to stem from what he regards as the two ultimate demands of our physical nature, the need to labor and the need to relax and have pleasure, the aggressive and the permissive instincts which Professor Nelson has identified as the 'forward' and the 'forward passions.

It was one thing to invite a married man into your bed – and quite another to invite him to help you with the gardening.

One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsage to make a simple and direct statement. So what is one to do? The dilema needs a whole volume to itself.

All men who participate in wars find themselves obliged to do things which, if they are decent people, they afterwards regret.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

I still cannot take those words to them, my lady. It would mean my life.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

I'm thinking," he said. To bed or not to bed his wife? That was the question.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.