Quotes About Dilemma

Ya no podía reír ni llorar, mentirse ni enfrentarse a la verdad, dejarse caer completamente ni tampoco enderezarse, quedarse ni marcharse, sentirse judía ni tampoco ya alemana, vivir ni morir.

She would happily send a rat hurtling to its doom and yet risk her life for a duck.

To remain pure a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

I am a Christian, you know, Julia.' So am I. But I'm not above staying out of jail any way I can.

It was typical that now he was being offered what he'd dreamed of he couldn't make a decision.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

Even if trolley problems were a realistic concern for AVs, it is not clear what, if anything, regulators or companies developing AVs should do about them. The trolley problem is an intensely debated thought experiment precisely because there isn't a consensus on what should be done.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.

The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot - and sometimes even bent their conscience - to do the president's bidding.

There is no law that guarantees press access to the White House. Communication was lessening during the Obama years. There was every reason to suspect that Trump was going to create an adversarial relationship and that people were going to be faced with the impossible dilemma between sort-of-complicity and access.

Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.