Quotes About Dilemma

As far as he could tell, he'd stopped one small bunch of bad guys killing a big bunch of bad guys and as a result the good guys got chucked out of their homes by another bunch of bad guys. Did that make him good or bad? James only knew that thinking about it gave him a headache.

If someone picks up a third party and throws him at you down at the bottom of a deep well...may you use your ray gun to disintegrate the falling body before it crushes and kills you?

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

The more challenging question is the moral one: If a child is seriously disruptive, whose interests should we prioritize? The one who needs extra attention and resources to succeed? Or his classmates, whose class time is reduced by his issues and outbursts? It is difficult to overstate how common this dilemma is in schools serving almost entirely low-income children—and how rarely it goes unresolved in schools where affluent Americans send their children.

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

Because people fight most fiercely when they dare not admit even to themselves that their cause is unjust.

If you, reader, had been one of the hands, would you have slogged? Or would you have preferred to starve and see your family starve? If you had been in Crass's place, would you have resigned rather than do such dirty work?

The "cure," it seemed, had once again been proven to be "worse than the disease.

Every existentialist in good standing must own a gun, and every week the existentialist rulebook says that gun ought to be inserted barrel first into the mouth. Then you make a choice. Is life worth the trouble it takes to live it?

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

Hay momentos en nuestra vida en que tenemos necesidad de ser canallas, de ensuciarnos hasta adentro, de hacer alguna infamia, yo qué sé..., de destrozar para siempre la vida de un hombre... y después de hecho eso podremos volver a caminar tranquilos.

For a while she thought about becoming a vegetarian. Instead, she took up smoking.

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

sometimes there are no choices but poor ones.

Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose.

There is, in all honesty, no way to kill someone mercifully. There are those who count it no crime to drown an imperfect newborn in warm water, as if the infant will not struggle desperately to draw air into its lungs. Did it not try to breathe, it would not drown. But they do not hear the screams nor feel the darkening of the mind that the child endures, so they have been merciful. To themselves. This is true of most "mercy killings.

I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.

And I had gone along with such a crooked piece of logic. Why? Did either of us believe that teaching children might be easier than killing them?

Jack narrowed his eyes. "Why can't you be just a hundred percent good or a hundred percent bad? Why do you have to keep me all confused all the time?

Lou had to believe he'd find something on Winchester if he just took it methodical. Half a mil. Lou thought about knocking again, then lowered his arm and stood there like a stupid ass. Couldn't even decide whether to knock. Half of him wanted to know what was going on; the other half would just as soon let it lie. The neighbors had IDed

Jack Newlin had no choice but to frame himself for murder.

Life is an impossible twist of choice and circumstance. One rarely exists without the other.

There was no undoing the bad without losing the good. That was the trick of it all.