The dilemma is everywhere. We all have landed into situations where individual reasonableness leads to collective irrationality. The awful dilemmas in life make life complicated. None of us want to go with the two unattractive alternatives. Amid the tussle between the individual’s interests and collective interests, personal gain wins probably most of the time.
Thought Provoking Social Dilemma Quotes
In this article, we have you a list of some thought-provoking social dilemma quotes by some remarkable personalities across the globe. Read on to find out how making choices among passive alternatives is a tough deal.
“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.”–Sydney J. Harris
“You can’t resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.”- Albert Einstein
“The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.”- Erica Jong
“You can’t rob a thief, can you? I never robbed no citizens.”-Charles Portis
“I hate violence, yes I do. It‘s kind of a dilemma, huh?.”-Jackie Chan
“The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else’s moral dilemma.”- Tom Hanks
“Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.’-Tom Hanks
“For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.”- May Sarton
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.” – Sir George Adrian Cadbury
“The reality is that to do what is right, you have to do some little wrongs.”-T.W. Lawless
“Increasingly, our decisions will be made by the algorithms that surround us. Whenever there is a big dilemma, you just ask Google what to do. And what kind of life is that?”-Yuval Noah Harari
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”- Sydney J. Harris
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”- Sydney J. Harris
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