Best Dilemma Quotes
188 Dilemma quotes by 168 unique authors
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Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth --…
— Saul Alinsky
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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…
— Christopher Dawson
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In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the lure…
— G. Edward Griffin
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What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside....…
— Terence McKenna
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Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether…
— Marjane Satrapi
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Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich…
— Bill Foster
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Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption…
— Maurice Strong
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The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are…
— Martin Van Creveld
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Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
— Ntozake Shange
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I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.
— Jenny Saville
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve…
— Yukio Mishima
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Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
— George Santayana
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The…
— David Graeber
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Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is…
— T.D. Jakes
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The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.
— Misha Glenny
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The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very…
— Rosemary M. Wixom
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The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when…
— Umera Ahmed
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The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.
— David Seabury
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This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal…
— Clayton Christensen
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Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and…
— Clyde Kluckhohn
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I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy…
— Leslie Moonves
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Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her…
— Peter Singer
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If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm…
— Robert Fulghum
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