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Moral dilemma Quotes

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place"

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent"

"If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness."

"I don't like to lie, so when I do, I try to make it more interesting."

"Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."

"What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?"

"The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason"

"Effective action is always unjust"

"But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist?"

"Sometimes what is right seems wrong, and what is wrong seems right"

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get."

"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out."

"To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as rare as to prosecute a purely moral action"

"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."