Decisive Quotes

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When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately… — Jeff Cooper
It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle. — Christian Lous Lange
The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless… — Orison S. Marden
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of… — Aristotle
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. — Eugenio Montale
The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around… — Robert Jay Lifton
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity… — Ole Hallesby
I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence,… — Kenzo Tange
The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive. — M. Scott Peck
It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in the way we… — Sebastiao Salgado
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death. — Bao ?ai
For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological… — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
The decisive means for politics is violence. — Max Weber
Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us. — Henry A. Kissinger
... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part… — Whittaker Chambers
In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But… — Arnold J. Toynbee
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the… — Walter Lippmann

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