Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. Rosa Luxemburg
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. Jasper Fforde
The dictatorship is necessary because it is a case, not of partial changes, but of the very existence of the bourgeoisie. No agreement is possible on this ground. Only force can be the deciding factor. Leon Trotsky
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. Bobby Scott
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. Orison Swett Marden
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. James Levine