Quotes about Dilemma

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

We are given two choices—famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other.

He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

The ethical expression for what Abraham did is that he meant to murder Isaac; the religious expression is that he meant to sacrifice Isaac—but precisely in this contradiction is the anxiety that can make a person sleepless, and yet without this anxiety Abraham is not who he is.

The Attack is a funny book which the reader has the option of taking seriously. For when the laughter subsides we realize that SK has set before us a stark either-or proposition: either follow the gospel according to Christ and the apostles, or follow the gospel according to the clergy. There can be no dialectical synthesis between these contraries.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications."

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.