“The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable”
“When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.”
“As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief... without moral purpose or human interest.”
“I think you can only make statements like ‘She was pathological’ if you are absolutely sure of your own sanity, which I consider a morally unacceptable position.”
“Viewing teaching as a moral endeavor filled with uncertain and inevitable dilemmas positions the teacher always as an inquirer.”
“A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.”