Quotes about Dilemma

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. That's some catch, that Catch-22, he observed. It's the best there is, Doc Daneeka agreed.

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.