Quotes about Dilemma

It must be made quite clear—terrifying though it is—that we are immediately faced with the decision: National Socialist or Christian...

One knows what is right, but holds it at arm's length for a time, neither throwing it out, nor embracing it.

Whenever there was a dilemma, I just left it in abeyance and—without really consciously dealing with it intensively—let it grow toward the clarity of a decision. But this clarity is not so much intellectual as it is instinctive. The decision is made; whether one can adequately justify it retrospectively is another question. "Thus" it happened that I went. Bonhoeffer was always thinking about thinking.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Of two evils, choose neither.

God is either good and not all powerful, or He is powerful and not all good. You can't have it both ways.