Quotes About Moral Dilemma

#1. The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

May Sarton

#2. A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.

Michael J. Marx

#3. There is the devastatingly simple, yet profound, moral dilemma, which underlies the book: is it better for a man to choose to be bad than to be conditioned to be good?

Anthony Burgess

#4. In the final analysis, real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

John Gardner

#5. A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. The moral dilemma that the little mermaid must confront - that she can only live by killing the one she loves - is the ethical choice at the heart of love. The other person, their identity and feelings, can be sacrificed for our pleasure.

Rod Dubey

#7. In the last 48 hours King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia passed away. I have a moral dilemma. The king passed away three or four days ago. Is it too soon to hit on Queen Latifah?

David Letterman

#8. Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.

Rick Riordan

#9. At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish.

George Orwell

#10. My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?

Jonathan Haidt

#11. I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.

Derek Blasberg

#12. I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#13. A public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside ... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

Jodi Picoult

#14. Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Claudius Claudianus

#15. Lo siento about the u-rine, mi amigo, but better safe than sorry when in the swamp. That's my motto.-Mark

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one's mind reshapes the world irrevocably, to see the light of truth as the agent of some dark majesty, is not grace but ordeal.

Algis Valiunas

#17. The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

Christopher Dawson

#18. I had such a great time doing commercials and things as a kid. My grandparents were on set with me all the time, and I loved that I got to hang out with them, so I will forever be grateful for that. But I just loved every minute of it.

Mila Kunis

#19. The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die.

Cody Lundin

#20. A distant goal can be achieved day by day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.

Steve Jobs

#22. It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

Emma Goldman

#23. Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

Bjarke Ingels

#24. Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans.
We only value mankind as our experimentation object.

Toba Beta

#25. The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. 'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

Anurag Kashyap

#27. No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself.

Barry Lopez

#28. Life will be peaceful if you can fill your heart with an abundance of love.

Debasish Mridha

#29. And a real, undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if only for a short time; moreover, real and true grief has sometimes even made fools more intelligent, also only for a time, of course; grief has this property.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#30. My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

James Thayer

#31. When Friedrich Nietzsche mocked Immanuel Kant for having "discovered a moral faculty in man", he inadvertently resolved Kant's dilemma of being unable to identify what exactly constituted his "moral law" for fear of offending against a charge of empiricism from the likes of David Hume.

Joseph B.H. McMillan

#32. If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

Casey Spooner