Quotes about Dilemma

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Andy Rooney, the late commentator on the 60 Minutes television show, once said, "I've decided I'm against abortion. I think it's murder. But I have a dilemma in that I much prefer the pro-choice to the pro-life people. I'd much rather eat dinner with a group of the former.

I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.

it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.