Decision

Famous quotes containing the word decision:

    “Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?”
    —Elias Canetti (b. 1905)

    “Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,—that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,—who is invariably the devil,—and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,—who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.”
    —Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)