Quotes About Dilemma

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.

He was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. He was never without misery, and never without hope.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

We're all faced with moments when we must choose between the path of convenience or conviction.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

You know, sometimes the right thing isn't the thing you think is right. It's the wrong thing you're afraid to think of.

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the violence wielded by the nation-state, so to rely on the nation-state for protection from violence is precisely to exchange one potential violence for another. There may, indeed, be few other choices.

Eat it or wear it

Let's say your life depended on it. You have to choose or you'll die." "Which one would you choose?" Caitlin said. "I asked you first." "Okay," Caitlin said. "I guess I'd take Von." Good, Vix thought. Because she had already chosen Bru for herself.

The real evil is usually the element that makes one nervous while they are confronting or exposing it.

No one will ever comprehend the arrested civilizations unless he sees the strict dilemma of early society. Either men had no law at all, and lived in confused tribes, hardly hanging together, or they had to obtain a fixed law by processes of incredible difficulty. Those who surmounted that difficulty soon destroyed all those that lay in their way who did not.

There are times when the truth is the worst possible thing you can come out with.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

How Do I Decide? A Contemporary Jewish Approach to What's Right and Wrong, Rabbi Roland B. Gittlesohn's

Just because you're fighting evil doesn't mean you're good. And just because you're doing evil doesn't mean you're bad. You end up with the conclusion that there is no ultimate right or wrong. It's all shades of gray.

For us, people who are not privileged enough to have the freedom to be good people, we have to make some bad choices and do some evil things. That's shitty, but it is what it is.

Like all the other things I'd agonized over, the process of making the decision took more time and energy—and was more painful and scary—than the result.

That evening, the engines talked about the situation.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Betty is much more likely to take her chances, as others do when faced with very bad options. As

President Truman famously asked for a "one-armed economist" who would take a clear stand; he was sick and tired of economists who kept saying, "On the other hand Ã¢â'¬Â¦