Quotes About Dilemma

Jean-Louis Gassée, who used to run Apple France, describes this situation as the choice between two tokens. When you deal with people who have trouble, you can either choose to take the token that says "It's no big deal" or the token that says "It's the end of the world." Whichever token you pick, they'll take the other.

No vi razon para no decirle la verdad, y sin embargo tuve la sensacion de no hacerlo al hacerlo.

que no está en su mano evitar o cumplir

The Dilemma: Avoid or Confront, It Seems There Is No Good Path

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. I looked upon the professors as sages who had all the answers and upon the university as the temple of knowledge. How could an insane person like her

exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

And then again, had I declared myself I should have robbed the woman I love of the wealth and position that her marriage to Clayton will now insure to her. I could not have done that—could I, Paul?

she faced the fearful reality of choosing between the final alternatives–Nikolas Rokoff on one hand and self-destruction upon the other.

I don't say it wasn't straight, and yet I don't say it was straight. It was business.

Even when it's the other way round it ain't always so easy to decide how far that kind of thing's binding… and they say shipwrecked fellows'll make a meal of friend as quick as they would of a total stranger.

If I cannot have reform without injustice, I will not have reform.

To be neutral13 between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

Ya sé que Antonio Machín lo hizo antes pero no tengo más remedio que preguntártelo: ¿cómo se pueden tener dos amores a la vez y no estar loco? - Facilísimo: estando loca.

That's what happens in plays, yes? The shit hits the fan. --Edward Albee

Life is complicated. You don't only have two simple choices: drunk or teetotaler; saint or sinner. It's more complicated than that.

A situation comes up, and either you do this or that, or maybe a third alternative comes up. But you simply do not choose. You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price we think the price is worth it.