Deliberation Quotes

“Contemplation”

“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”

“Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.”

“The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.”

“The Lord is the All-powerful Cause of causes, says Nanak after deep deliberation.”

“deliberation”

“Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.”

“Wikipedia: Deliberation”

“The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.”

“After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.”

“Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.”

“Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.”

“We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.”

“The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.”

“The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).”

“Millions Knives:If you just keep saving the butterflies the spiders will die. But...wanting to save both is a contradiction. What would you rather do? Keep deliberating? The butterfly will be eaten in the meantime.”

“In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.”

“Because deliberation requires the public exercise of capacities for autonomy legitimacy derives in the first instance from citizens’ participation in decision making. In deliberation citizens govern themselves and give themselves rules for common life.”

“What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.”

“Deliberation seems to be elitist, more appropriate to university seminars and scientific communities than to the general public. Even if everyone could participate in deliberation, would not the more competent and better situated citizens tend to carry the day.”