Quotes About Dilemma

Which will you take, the high road or the low road?" "Which one is longer?" "They're both short.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

But why is it that within me "I don't want to" and "I want to" stand side by side? That is the chief horror of the matter; I continue to long for that happy death of yesterday. The horror of it is that even now, when I have integrated the logical function, when it becomes evident that that function contains death hidden within it, still I long for it with my lips, my arms, my heart, with every millimeter....

And what if you don't wait? You just drive over the edge yourself? Wouldn't that be the only right thing to do, the one that would solve everything?

El deber y el crimen jamás pueden coincidir en una misma cosa.

There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative...

Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.

Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's too crowded.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it

When you come to a fork in the road, just take it

When you see a fork in the road, take it.

No, I don't go to that restaurant anymore. No body goes there. It's too crowded.

The prisoner's dilemma

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

And at the time it had not been the flames against which they fought, but against human relationships, against loves and hatreds, against reason, against property. At the time, like the crew of a wrecked ship, they had found themselves in a situation where it was permissible to kill one person in order that another might live.

In short, if I had a choice, I guarantee I'd rather get a hole in the head than eat carrots.

En la vida trazamos el rumbo hacía el que pensamos que es el mal menor, pero la satisfacción que nos procura este instante se mezcla con el placer de humillar nuestros deseos más ardientes y más dificiles de colmar, en el fondo del corazón, y nos contentamos con decirnos que es un mal menor.

Why, why?" he thought, gritting his teeth. "Why are people not allowed to do what is most beautiful, when ugly, shoddy acts, acts for the sake of gain, are all freely allowed?

We might actually get the worst of both worlds, suffering simultaneously from high unemployment and a shortage of skilled labor.

Which means that when designing their self-driving car, Toyota or Tesla will be transforming a theoretical problem in the philosophy of ethics into a practical problem of engineering

Whatever path we take, the first step is to acknowledge the complexity of the dilemma and to accept that simplistically dividing the past into good guys and bad guys leads nowhere. Unless, of course, we are willing to admit that we usually follow the lead of the bad guys.