Quotes of: Dilemmas Keyword

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

101 Ethical Dilemmas

Charlotte blanched. 'I'm only a maid, miss.' 'A maid is still a woman.

The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park

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

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

101 Ethical Dilemmas

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

[I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park

It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life

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...

Zack Snyder

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life