People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action. All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted i...
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coerciv...
Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in a box of Chicken McNuggets than in a pastured chicken or a rare breed of pig. It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-...
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right pla...
Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes. An...
The irony of the present day is, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human rights ...
What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
We all have our pasts and baggage, Mimi. It’s our decision whether they fuck with our future.
Conscious humility is the decision to live from our hearts.
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
The decision was too important to make lightly without more prayer.
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.
Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
