Quotes About Dilemma

In wrestling with this dilemma, many countries are loosening government controls and injecting market mechanisms, particularly cost sharing by patients, market pricing of goods and services, and increased competition among insurers and providers. As Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament, put it in a report to the European Commission, "We should start to explore the power of the market as a way of achieving much better value for money."339

Better to stay on the boat, though, and fetch it about. Better to remain alive, and throw the lifebuoy. Surely!" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

Physics, yes? Physics. This is physics. It's also politics. The two are sometimes painfully difficult to keep apart. Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

Like any man who has two masters with opposing interests, he was torn between them.

He kept the gun in his lap as he drove, and he prayed. It was the strangest prayer he'd ever offered. He asked for strength to do the wrong thing, and then forgiveness for doing it.

There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory.

Is she dead?" called Zenda. Sort of," I shouted, "And the pizza's completely fucked too.

On the metro home that night, I struggled with a dilemma that would haunt me for decades. Was I an activist or an academic?

Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas.

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

It was the right thing to do, but it could not be sustained. Not here. The

As it sometimes happened, the good suffered for the faults of the bad.

Fleetingly, unnervingly, I understand what he's saying but cannot accept a world that is so brutally black and white. Murder, rape and torture are the apparatus of terrorists, not of civilized societies. If we become like them, what hope do we have?

A thought passes across the driver's face. Ruiz has always referred to it as the Dirty Harry moment-that fleeting instant when a person wonders: Am I fast enough or lucky enough?

She has a first-class mind and third-class morals, which is exactly what I need right now

I don't really understand it. Never have. The more I think on it the more it horrifies me. How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?

When you have people making decisions they are essentially compelled to make," he said, "that's what I'm referring to as 'an unmanageable situation.

Yaz and Meyer didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter

didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter was looking like a strong

Im for rules but when rules conflicts humanity i will stand against it at all cost

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

He simply hoped that difficult decisions would make themselves.