If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I ain't all about the Benjamins, I'm about trying to live a decent life as a decent human being, and make some… — Everlast Copy Share Image
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to… — Jan Cameron Copy Share Image
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The proclamation of the Gospel is destined primarily to the poor, to those who often lack the essentials for a decent life.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very… — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Copy Share Image
We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on… — Sha Zukang Copy Share Image
What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
“Sunja-ya, a woman’s life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It’s better to expect it, you… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image