The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Thomas Sowell

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
Howard Zinn

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
Marilyn vos Savant

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas Babington

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Gerald R. Ford

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.
Mencius

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
Bob Barker

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.
Dawn French

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
Aristophanes

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.
Robert De Niro

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
Sandra Day O'Connor

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Henry A. Kissinger

Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.
Sebastian Bach