Quotes About Dilemma

Good ends will not justify evil actions. What

Yeah, they told me, just be yourself ... so I did. Maybe that was the problem.

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

For example, the bulk of federal Medicare insurance for the elderly is spent keeping people alive in their last six months, trying to prevent what cannot be prevented. That many recipients of this intervention do not judge the quality of their life in those last months to be satisfactory is a dilemma for which we have no solution.

So there you have it: two things & I can't bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary—how am I to resolve them?

Indeed, as we have seen, the drama and tragedy of the moral life lies in the fact that most human disagreement is between opposing goods rather than between right and wrong.

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. ("Mad House")

Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes

Why do you want me to stay?" she asked unhappily. He looked at her without a definite answer in his mind. Then he said, "Even if you are infected, I can't let you go out there. You don't know what they'd do to you." Her eyes closed. "I don't care," she said. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN "I don't understand it," he told her over supper.

What did it matter what he did? Life would be equally purposeless no matter what his decision was.

And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.

The bird and the fish may fall in love but where will they build their nest?

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.

The universe story and the human story are a play of forces rational and nonrational, conscious and unconscious; of fate and fortune, nature and nurture. Forces of good and evil play out their tragedies and their graces—leading us to catastrophes, backtracking, mutations, transgressions, regroupings, enmities, failures, mistakes, and impossible dilemmas.

What was the sense of talking about a problem if you didn't have a way to solve it?

Does truth have a moral?

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. "Keep it simple.

Genius does not excuse evil.

June smiled. So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?

It was almost enough to make me turn vegetarian, except for the pesky fact that I loved cheeseburgers.

Some problems even duct tape couldn't solve.

maybe I don't want to eat bloody coriander!' She came to an abrupt halt, whiplashing the baby in the pushchair. She turned round and said, 'Well, maybe I do,' and glared at him for the longest time, wishing she had the woodcutting axe with her, the axe that

Sacrifice,' " Sylvie said, "is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.") But