Quotes About Dilemma

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

If the price of continuing my political career is to be complicit in a really bad thing then that's not a price I'm prepared to pay.

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

Government lawyers, like private ones, face the problem routinely of aiding in the defense and development of positions in whose correctness they don't believe.

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

It's a dilemma for every modern parent - how to keep children safe on social media without monitoring their every post.

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

I never want to have to take certain roles, because I want to maintain a certain level of artistic credibility. But sometimes you're forced to do things for the money.

I had to chose between chess and cricket.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

I like to tell stories about people trying to make the right, difficult decision at the least opportune moment... People in a crucible of an extraordinary circumstance. And then, how that experience changes their life.

I follow the Cubs. Only when they play the Nationals do I have a conflict.