“Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.” HumansWarPresidentDecisionPiecesRightsExampleClaimsHuman RightsDenyFighterAlsPrisonerConventionsPresident BushAl QaedaTalibanGenevaMistreatmentPrisoner Of WarGeneva Convention Author:John Yoo
“Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing."” RunningDecisionWeekHusbandStandingBallsClaimsElectionLabourMy HusbandSexismAcceptableNothing NewCameron Author:Yvette Cooper
“I felt that let's understand that all these people are just human, even the advisors in the White House, they're just real people trying to make real decisions and they make mistakes like anybody else does under pressure. If you can get that with these great performances then you claim it on that level as well.” PeopleIfsTryingHumansWellsDoeRealHouseFeltWhiteDecisionLevelsMistakePerformancesClaimsPressureMaking MistakesWhite HouseUnder PressureAdvisorsGreat Performance Author:Gerard Butler
“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.” IfsThinkingKnowsUseDecisionLove IsVirtueTeachingCollegeMajorsHighestClaimsWho You AreGuaranteesAppropriateDecision MakingAcademicCriteriaPretentiousGuarantees ThatWhat Is LoveAcademic Life Author:Leroy S Rouner
“I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit up there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.” PeopleShouldLooksMadeFacesDecisionPayWillingRegretPleaseTruth IsClaimsYour FaceJudged Author:Jack Bauer
“As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.” WorldWarSelfGovernmentDecisionSupportFailingCrimeStandardsClaimsThreatInternationalAdministrationFallenSyriaCredibilityPolicemenPretextWar CrimesWhen All Else Fails Author:Noam Chomsky
“Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.” ThinkingRealFactsUseNamesIndividualSpeakSocialCommunityDecisionColdHigherClaimsSelfishDecision MakingCollectivismGuise Author:Doug Bandow
“It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview - a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before - which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.” PeopleLooksTodayCoursesDecisionVisionSpecialElementsArgumentClaimsChosenDoctrineConclusionContrastScience And ReligionCompetitorsMonopolyWorldviewScientism Author:Mary Midgley
“And you can claim whatever you want to of being pro-life or pro- choice, but the right to a abortion is not in the Constitution. The court created it. It created a constitutional right. And these decisions removed a fully appropriate political judgment from the people of the several states and has led to many adverse consequences.” PeopleWantStatesPoliticalChoicesDecisionJudgmentConsequenceConstitutionClaimsCourtAbortionAppropriatePro LifeAdverse Author:Sam Brownback
“The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law of the Sea Convention (Unclos). The tribunal's ruling delivered a clear and legally binding decision on maritime claims in the South China Sea as they relate to China and the Philippines - and that ruling should be respected. We believe this decision can and should serve as an opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime claims peacefully.” ShouldBelieveMadeLawOpportunityDecisionEffortClearSeaClaimsSouthChinaPeacefulRelateAddressesResolveConventionsRulingBindingPhilippinesTribunalsMaritime Author:Barack Obama
“As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the position that ethical claims have truth values, but their truth conditions consist not in a set of objective facts to which they correspond, but instead in the outcome of some procedure of deliberation resulting in decisions about what to do.” FactsValuesDecisionConditionsPositionEthicsClaimsObjectivesOutcomesEthicalProceduresDeliberationConstructivism Author:Allen W. Wood
“If we decide rightly what to do, or use a correct procedure for making such decisions, that has to be because the decisions or the procedure rest on good reasons, and these reasons consist in the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do. Because these truths must constitute reasons for our decisions, and because in the rational order, reasons must always precede the decisions based on them, the truth conditions of claims about what we ought to cannot be reduced to, or constructed out of, decisions about what to do, or procedures for making such decisions.” IfsReasonUseOrderDecisionConditionsOughtClaimsRationalProceduresApprehension Author:Allen W. Wood
“As a party of labor, the SPD must work together with the unions to ensure that people can make a living with their work. That is why I am not a proponent of the concept of unconditional basic income. I am, however, very much in favor of decent wage agreements, secure and lasting jobs, employee participation in decision-making and the examination of the social justification for claims and payments.” PeopleTogetherJobsSocialDecisionPartyConceptsLaborClaimsUnionsFavorsIncomeSecureDecentEmployeeAgreementWorking TogetherDecision MakingLastingJustificationParticipationUnconditionalExaminationPayment Author:Martin Schulz
“Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSometimesActorsDecisionRolesClaimsLays Author:Julia Roberts
“Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.” PeopleMenHumansWholeGovernmentEyeSufferingSpeakLossDecisionPolicyDutyConcernedEarsClaimsAbsolutesResponsibleMereSilentInternationalProfitWelfareAbstractUnhappinessPermitProvokingCitizenshipTestimonyUntrueNegligence Author:Michel Foucault
“Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.” ImaginationDecisionBusinessCreativityClaimsSpeedThriveDecision MakingMonopolyOrganisation Author:N. R. Narayana Murthy
“This is of monumental significance. The gift has been given - what we make of it is up to us. Unless we listen to counsel we will receive none. Unless we pray, exercise faith, love, obey, and keep the tabernacles of our spirits clean - we can have no claim upon this unspeakable gift. May we so live as to have the guidance of the Holy Spirit to help us make wise decisions.” MayHas BeensHelpingSpiritGivenDecisionWisePrayingExerciseHolyClaimsCleanGhostGuidanceHoly SpiritSignificanceHoly GhostUnspeakableFaith In LoveWise Decision Book:You can go home again Source: You can go home again