Quotes About Dilemma

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics, and no man can say with surety whether present wrong-doing is better and safer in the end than the possibility of that imagined peril.

What will my happiness be like? What kind of happy woman will Antigone grow into? What base things will she have to do, day after day, in order to snatch her own little scrap of happiness? Tell me – who will she have to lie to? Smile at? Sell herself to? Who will she have to avert her eyes from, and leave to die?

This guy is a real pain. I want to remind him that we're the good guys. We're not up at 4 a.m. because we like the way it feels.

Do not expect me then to answer for A heart so little master of itself. He may, sir, in this frenzied turmoil wed The one he hates and spurn the one he loves.

The price we pay is the path not taken, that which we give up.

Almost as if—as if he regretted that they were civilised. As if he knew that they had to be, but wished it wasn't necessary. Or that there was some other way.

But basing a whole philosophy of life on what you would do in extremis does not seem to me to be right.

It was so hard to decide where loyalties should lie: with oneself or with one's community?

Anyway, that's the way I feel—and I've refused to marry him. I

Perché non riusciva a decidersi? Che cosa ci guadagnava a stare in mare, lontano da chi amava? Quale maledizione aveva colpito lui e tanti altri, che non trovavano il senso della vita se non lontano da ogni attracco?

Lesser of two evils.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.

Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her.

I am condemned to be free.

The good news for the Washington Federals is they do not have a quarterback controversy. The bad news is they do not have a quarterback.

For the next few minutes I reviewed my available options, and I came up with the following plan: hope that somebody showed up to rescue me. Or,

My free will was compromised, if only by the severe temptation of the unknown.

Dawn is purely a work of fiction, but I wrote it to look at myself in a new way. Obviously I did not live this tale, but I was implicated in its ethical dilemma from the moment that I assumed my character's place.

Everything had been said. The pros and the cons. I would choose the living or the dead. Day or night.

most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don't know where else to find them.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

How come you can't give with both hands, Mom? How come you have to give with one and take away with the other?