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  • Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'

    "Meeting with the Representatives of British Society, Including the Diplomatic Corps, Politicians, Academics and Business Leaders". Pope Benedict XVI speech, w2.vatican.va. September 17, 2010.
  • I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

    Hate   Violence   Kind  
    Twitter post from Jan 11, 2014
  • The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

    E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.391, Vintage
  • We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

    War   Tyrants   Iraq  
  • 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.

  • Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

    Love   Funny   Change  
  • The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

    Moral   Reason   Dilemma  
  • 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?

    Kings   Queens   Arabia  
  • Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

    Love   Song   Good Life  
    Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media
  • For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

    "Recovering: A Journal".
  • We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

    Baby   Safe   Want  
  • Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

    Lying   Book   Kids  
  • The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

    Fighting   Dark   Knights  
  • Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.

  • A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

    Fathers Day   Kings   Dad  
    Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.45, Open Road Media
  • Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

    Hands   People   Darkness  
  • It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.

    Book   Kids   Simplicity  
    Source: collider.com
  • Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite.

  • One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries - Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.

    "The World of George Orwell" edited by Miriam Gross, (p. 167), 1972.
  • Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.

  • 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?

    Smart   Risk   Different  
    Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.463, Simon and Schuster
  • And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

    L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.
  • 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.

  • Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

    "Double vision". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.
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