Quotes About Dilemma

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.

Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution.

How do men convince themselves that others must die so they might live?

The urge to know scrapes against the inability to know.

Every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong? But here it is right.

Frederick said we don't have choices, don't own our lives, but in the end it was Werner who pretended there were no choices, Werner who watched Frederick dump the pail of water at his feet—I will not— Werner who stood by as the consequences came raining down. Werner who watched Volkheimer wade into house after house, the same ravening nightmare recurring over and over and over.

To select one word was to commit to a single path when the maze contains thousands.

Frederick said we don't have choices, don't own our lives, but in the end it was Werner who pretended there were no choices, Werner who watched Frederick dump the pail of water at his feet-I will not- Werner who stood by as the consequences came raining down.

It seems to Werner that the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. He thinks of the girl who may or may not be in the city behind him.

Good evening, he thinks. Or heil Hitler. Everyone is choosing the latter.

It was not," says Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, "very easy to be good then.

Cicero's central concern is the contradiction between virtue and the inevitable expediencies that divert human agents from the path of right conduct.

He who fight monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

There are some relationships that succeed only because they are impossible, that actually need unhappiness to continue.

He was just going to have to cheat.

Too many families know what it's like to have to choose between providing care for a family member and keeping their job.

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?

When a character does something appalling but you still want to root for them, I find that the most exciting challenge to play, if you can pull it off. You're not supposed to like it, but you can't help it.

When you have multiple patients on life support, you don't pull the plug on one just to save another.