Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
- Topic: Decision
More Quotes from Winston Churchill
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
More on Decision
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
You cannot make progress without making decisions.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
