Quotes about Dilemma

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

No one should have to choose between taking lifesaving medicine and paying for food.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?

In the end, we have two choices: both God and happiness neither God nor happiness

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.

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.