Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people. — Benjamin B. Ferencz Copy Share Image
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Only religious faith is a strong enough force to motivate such utter madness in otherwise sane and decent people.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
“But I had at least hoped to find some decent people around Hitler. I am horrified to discover that the whole gang… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people. — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate that the men I surround myself with in the comedy world are really decent people: men who are very… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen -… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
We want to make it clear that Indiana's open for business. We want to make it clear that Hoosier hospitality is not… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life.… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To some folk, if not to most folk, decency means pretending that the nastier things in life do not really exist. Decent… — Amado Crowley Copy Share Image
“Did you like my novel?" she couldn't resist asking. "Yes, I did. At first I thought it would be typical silver-fork fare.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly… — Edith Grossman Copy Share Image
“On the one hand we must never imagine that our own unaided efforts can be relied on to carry us even through… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints". Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people?… — Viktor Emil Frankl Copy Share Image
“Against the background of bland colors he projected an unfadable blackness. In a world of men with harrowed faces, with smashed eyes,… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“I am not anti-American,' he said. 'I just despise the current American administration. I despair that Bush has made ordinary, decent people… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
“To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have gelded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Just when I think you’ve hit bottom you continue to amaze me,” Kyle said. “Or, does this get worse? Nothing would surprise… — Ryan Field Copy Share Image
“Milwaukee, Rebecca. Order and sobriety and a devotion to cleanliness that scours out the soul. Decent people doing their best to live… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“For every bad man and woman I have ever known, I have met . . . an overwhelming number of thoroughly clean… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“To many an upright poor person, it seems needless to invent a god who will wash the feet of beggars and exalt… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
