Quotes About Dilemma

Facing a choice, we gave up rationality rather than give up the enterprise.

The decision of whether or not to protect individuals against their mistakes therefore presents a dilemma for behavioral economists. The economists of the Chicago school do not face that problem, because rational agents do not make mistakes. For adherents of this school, freedom is free of charge.

First grub, then ethics." He was implying that ethical decision-making may only be a luxury reserved for those of us who do not need to struggle simply to stay alive.

real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications. - Gabriel Allon

Not possible. RhineBank doesn't hire anyone whose conscience wasn't removed at birth.

Whatever are we to do about you, baby girl? Huh?' 'Kill me, I guess.' 'That idea has been said already. Got'ny other ones?' 'Help me. Ain't nobody said that idea yet, have they?

The man who found in his heart this heretical and dangerous thought, which speaks of the futility of one's own being-in-time, finds himself, however, faced with another (final) dilemma: whether to accept the transitoriness of this being-in-time for the sake of that precious and expensively acquired knowledge (which excludes any morality and therefore is made in absolute freedom), or, for the sake of that same knowledge, to yield oneself to the embrace of nothingness.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull How do you hang on to someone who won't stay And how do you get rid of someone who won't go

Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Life for him was a constant balancing act between disrespect and career preservation.

In order to feel remorse, there had to be a gray area, some part of the situation that made you uncertain of your choices. Noah

Makes me sick to think that I chose to become part of a system that can so easily and arbitrarily decide to destroy a man for doing exactly what was right.

Life's big questions are big in the sense that they are momentuous. However, contrary to appearances, they are not big in the sense of being unanswerable. It is only that the answers are generally unpalatable. There is no great mystery, but there is plenty of horror.

Perhaps we would not be human if the quality of our lives were much better than it is. It does not follow that the quality of human life is good.

In a sentence: Life is bad, but so is death.

T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...

How was a feeling be so bad if it makes me feel so good?

The control of violence is the most important dilemma every society faces.

Maybe you should just press the button

I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.