Quotes about Dilemma

For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.

He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

Is it better to shout and thereby hasten the end, or to keep silent and gain thereby a slower death?

We can never know what to want, because, only living one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor the perfect it in our lives to come.

Sabina once allowed herself to be taken along to a gathering of fellow emigres. As usual, they were hashing over whether they should or should not have taken up arms against the Russians. In the safety of emigration, they all naturally came out in favor of fighting. Sabina said: Then why don't you go back and fight?

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lived to come.

Edmund Way Teale in his 1950 book Circle of the Seasons understood the dilemma better: It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

You know, son, God will give you what you choose. And if you think about that real hard, it'll scare you to death. I don't think you're ready to suffer the consequences of those choices.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.