Quotes About Dilemma

Sometimes there is no good choice. Just the choice that has to be made.

between Scylla and Charybdis

The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the opposite, and as a professional economist, I have had occasions in the past to wonder whther the Bank could not have done very much better.

Who says there even is a real Shenkt? People like things that are simple. Black and white. Good and evil. They want to make a choice and tell themselves they were right. But as His Eminence is fond of saying, the real world is painted in greys. The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth … is a hard sell.

Maybe you should try sticking to one side or the other.' 'Why ever would anyone do that?' Cosca raised his flask, took a sip and smacked his lips in satisfaction. 'It's a war. There is no right side.

But love is not always a solution. In this case, it was very much a problem.

Strange, to lock men up for thieving when the whole army lived on robbery. To dangle men for murder when they were all at the business of killing. What makes a crime in a time when men take what they please from who they please?

History is not the story of battles between right and wrong, but between one man's right and another's. Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.

you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.

Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse' Joseph

One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find that we are . . . this.

There's always good men on both sides of a good fight.

Sometimes Wile wondered whether a cause could be right that needed folk burned, cut and otherwise mutilated.

Right things, wrong things, well...it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

I was loyal to both", said Clover. "I was just more loyal to me. Truth is, men love to blab abour loyalty till it might trap 'em on the losing side. Then there's a chorus o' silence on the issue. So I consider reasonably loyal to be a bit more loyal than most, and a lot more honest than most. It's a fool who makes folk choose too often between loyalty and good sense.

The pilot of a foundering vessel, perhaps, looking to his captain, silently asking if they really did intend to go down with the ship. Perhaps that's why captains do go down with their ships. No better ideas.

Ah yes! I had the chance to leave all this behind. Yet I chose to come back. Change is not a simple thing, eh, Sergeant? I entirely see and understand the pointlessness and waste of it all, yet I do it anyways. Does that make me worse or better than the man who does it thinking himself ennobled by a righteous cause? Or the man who does it for his own profit, without the slightest grain of thought for right or wrong? Or are we all the same?

Having fucked the groom is really no excuse for missing a wedding, you know.

Trouble with the good fight, I find… once

Which side are we on, then?" "That's one o'those questions you try not to answer till you have to.

But far as I can tell it ain't that simple. Right things, wrong things, well… it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others. And once you're chief, you can't just do what's good for you, or those you love. You have to find what's best for most. Worst for fewest.

He'd been happy to swear it when things were going well and supposed he couldn't just unswear it the moment things turned dicey. What kind of an oath would it be then?

Trouble with the good fight, I find... once the fight starts, the good stops.