Quotes About Dilemma

Link had to make the decision to save himself.

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

Why couldn't I have just made it home without seeing them? I wasn't in the mood to play good freaking Samaritan to Beau and his trashy girlfriend.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...

Sometimes we're loyal to more than one thing. When there's a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.