Quotes About Dilemma

qué tontería había sido quererlo, amarlo, y pese a todo evitarlo siempre.

We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.

Hay una contradicción en torno a esta vida que se quiere preservar. ¿Por qué se da a escoger a los creyentes entre la vida del feto y la de la madre? ¿Por qué se elige la vida del feto?

Either, then, one is to live aesthetically or one is to live ethically.

Someone whose only reason for not acting in an antisocial way was that they were scared of getting in trouble with God . . . where did you even start with such a person?

Svetlana said that when she was in the first grade, kids would torture each other in the playground by asking, "Who do you love more, Comrade Tito or your own mother?

There are two ways to die here,' the fighter concluded. 'You can die doing the right thing for the wrong reason, or die doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

You have to bear in mind the punishment. If an inmate ran away they would kill fifty other inmates. How can you accept that responsibility?

if it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being".

Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. Its better to live somehow than not at all.

El determinismo circunscribe la necesidad a otra necesidad, de manera indefinida, sin encontrar jamás algo determinante en sentido propio; de ahí que todo su sistema de lo necesario resulte ser un sistema de lo innecesario, de aquello cuya efectiva presencia no proviene de sí ni de ningún otro, sino de un tercero, respecto del cual se reproduce el mismo dilema irresuelto.

In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil.

Preferisco l'angoscia ad una pace marcia, affermò lui, tra le due cose preferisco l'angoscia.

Every man has an option i.e life or wife. But if he wants both of his own, then his living has to have rife of strife.

The most challenging and difficult part in laying the right path come from the sandwiched people who walk astride between talents and duffers.

Her body consented willingly to all that her soul found most abhorrent. As Nicholas had promised, there was a hellish delight in knowing she was damned.

I think you'd be much better of marrying ME." "Miss Moore, are you proposing to me?" He affected a shocked tone. "Yes Mr. Rathburn, and you'd better answer fast or I will rescind my offer." "Don't do that." His grip on my hand tightened. "Yes, Jane. My answer is yes.

If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God; Take the even, take the odd....

I didn't know if the cure for my life was to lie to everyone about everything or to become brutally honest.

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?

Most of the things about which we make decisions, and into which therefore we inquire, present us with alternative possibilities.

We must as a second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.