Intractable Problems Quotes

“The plot thickens until it turns to sludge.”
― Clifford Cohen

“The only approach to these intractable problems that is at all hopeful is to acknowledge the reality and the probable persistence of the conflict of aims, to try to get both parties to recognize their conflicting prima facie rights as such, and to look for a solution which can be seen as a reasonable compromise between these prima facie rights, and which can therefore be defended morally, not merely politically, in the court of international opinion in terms of principles which are already recognized and confidently relied upon in uncontroversial cases.”
― J.L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong