Dilemmas Quotes

“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.”

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

“...I day dream.Therefore,I am the queen,of my thoughts.Though thirteen,I drift,between,one conception,to another.I create opinions,liberate dilemmas,assert convictions,deal paroxysm,create perfections.”I am neither,a thinker,nor a,perceiver,I am a Day Dreamer...”

“There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.”

“The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together to convince Westerners in the twentieth century that morality is the study of moral quandaries and dilemmas. Where the Greeks focused on the character of a person and asked what kind of person we should each aim to become, modern ethics focuses on actions, asking when a particular action is right or wrong. ... This turn from character ethics to quandary ethics has turned moral education away from virtues and toward moral reasoning. If morality is about dilemmas, then moral education is training in problem solving.”

“Pray FOR positive outcomes, never ON perceived dilemmas”

“Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.”

“Deadlines and daily dilemmas are stressful focus on solutions problems concerns don't sweat make best out of the moment.”

“Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.”

“There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang onto someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?”