Quotes about Dilemma

I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

when good people do good, and evil people do evil, it is not surprising. But when good people do evil, it takes religion to do that.

But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.

It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances.

We shall be able to solve the problem when it will be clearly evident to all that there is no other, no cheaper way out of the present situation.

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.