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title: "156 Decent people Quotes by 139 authors"
description: "Browse 156 Decent people quotes by 139 authors. Discover the best Decent people sayings and thoughts."
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> [Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/certain-types-of-loudmouthism-should-be-a-capital-offense-among/)

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/)

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> [Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling-2/decent-people-are-so-easy-to-manipulate-potter/)

[J. K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling-2/)

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> [Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/human-trafficking-is-a-human-tragedy-it-s-an-outrage-against-any/)

[Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/)

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> [“Even decent people can have awful friends.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-jarzab/even-decent-people-can-have-awful-friends/)

[Anna Jarzab](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-jarzab/)

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> [“I resolve right then not to kill him. Decent people affect me that way. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cole/i-resolve-right-then-not-to-kill-him-decent-people-affect-me-that-way/)

[Nick Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cole/)

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> [Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-snow/sometimes-political-campaigns-make-decent-people-act-and-talk-like/)

[Tony Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-snow/)

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> [The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-joyce/the-only-decent-people-i-ever-saw-at-the-racecourse-were-horses/)

[James Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-joyce/)

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> [“It is hard to fake decency. I observed. - On Decency”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lamine-pearlheart/it-is-hard-to-fake-decency-i-observed-on-decency/)

[Lamine Pearlheart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lamine-pearlheart/)

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> [Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-birbiglia/creepy-people-do-the-things-that-decent-people-want-to-do-but-have/)

[Mike Birbiglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-birbiglia/)

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> [“Police only have to see that me don’t have no shoes before he say what the bloodcloth you nasty naiggers doing ’round…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlon-james/police-only-have-to-see-that-me-don-t-have-no-shoes-before-he-say/)

[Marlon James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlon-james/)

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> [Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-bonaparte/good-and-decent-people-must-be-protected-and-persuaded-by-gentle/)

[Napoleon Bonaparte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-bonaparte/)

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> [Part of the reason a hit show is a hit show is because of the people - good, solid, decent people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-pasdar/part-of-the-reason-a-hit-show-is-a-hit-show-is-because-of-the-people/)

[Adrian Pasdar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-pasdar/)

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> [“I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-k-lilley/i-also-found-it-particularly-encouraging-that-the-decent-people-in/)

[R.K. Lilley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-k-lilley/)

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> [It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-lapierre/it-has-always-been-sensible-for-good-citizens-to-own-and-carry/)

[Wayne LaPierre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-lapierre/)

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> [He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-howey/he-thought-of-men-like-hitler-stalin-and-napoleon-all-it-took-was-a/)

[Hugh Howey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-howey/)

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> [She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-vincent/she-just-got-out-of-the-hospital-why-don-t-you-go-gossip-behind-her/)

[Rachel Vincent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-vincent/)

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> [I know many men at Fox, and most are good, decent people. Many are also good family men who have wives, mothers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-e-cupp/i-know-many-men-at-fox-and-most-are-good-decent-people-many-are-also/)

[S.E. Cupp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-e-cupp/)

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> [One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-donnelly/one-expects-decent-people-to-stand-up-for-the-good-of-all-decent/)

[Jennifer Donnelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-donnelly/)

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> [All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ani-difranco/all-the-decent-people-male-and-female-are-feminists-the-only-people/)

[Ani DiFranco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ani-difranco/)

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> [“If pimps and thieves were invariably sen­tenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent, cher mon­sieur. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-pimps-and-thieves-were-invariably-sen-tenced-all-decent-people/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-mikes/australians-are-decent-people-with-the-right-instincts-and-they-wish/)

[George Mikes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-mikes/)

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> [No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-cormier/no-matter-how-bad-things-get-eventually-the-sun-is-going-to-shine-if/)

[Daniel Cormier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-cormier/)

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> [“When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-borman/when-you-re-finally-up-at-the-moon-looking-back-on-earth-all-those/)

[Frank Borman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-borman/)

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> [The FBI that I see is people, decent people, committed to the highest principles of dignity and professionalism and respect... Now do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-a-wray/the-fbi-that-i-see-is-people-decent-people-committed-to-the-highest/)

[Christopher A. Wray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-a-wray/)

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> [There's a fundamental difference between many of the Democrats and my party. And that is: They want to leave before the job…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-w-bush/there-s-a-fundamental-difference-between-many-of-the-democrats-and-my/)

[George W. Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-w-bush/)

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> [“The compartment was now completely full. Looking out to the passageway through the inside window, I could see a German soldier standing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/captain-hank-bracker-suppresed-i-rise/the-compartment-was-now-completely-full-looking-out-to-the-passageway/)

[Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/captain-hank-bracker-suppresed-i-rise/)

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> [“He laughed, looking down into his empty cup. “Decent people don’t expect that kind of twistedness.” He put the cup down on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristen-d-randle/he-laughed-looking-down-into-his-empty-cup-decent-people-don-t-expect/)

[Kristen D. Randle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristen-d-randle/)

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> [“It was one of those words that tended to brook no further questioning, and Harmigan had applied his very best evocation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-duns/it-was-one-of-those-words-that-tended-to-brook-no-further-questioning/)

[Jeremy Duns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-duns/)

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> [“From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the “race” of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/from-all-this-we-may-learn-that-there-are-two-races-of-men-in-this-2/)

[Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/)

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> [“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/experience-often-repeated-truly-bitter-experience-had-taught-him-long/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

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> [Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/scientists-are-entitled-to-be-proud-of-their-accomplishments-and-what/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

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> [“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/there-are-otherwise-quite-decent-people-who-are-so-dull-of-nature/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

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> [“Sunday's Best Times are tough for English babies Send the army and the navy Beat up strangers who talk funny Take their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elvis-costello/sunday-s-best-times-are-tough-for-english-babies-send-the-army-and/)

[Elvis Costello](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elvis-costello/)

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> [“To many an upright poor person, it seems needless to invent a god who will wash the feet of beggars and exalt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/to-many-an-upright-poor-person-it-seems-needless-to-invent-a-god-who/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“For every bad man and woman I have ever known, I have met . . . an overwhelming number of thoroughly clean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-stratton-porter/for-every-bad-man-and-woman-i-have-ever-known-i-have-met-an/)

[Gene Stratton-Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-stratton-porter/)

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> [“It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/it-s-beyond-everything-what-s-being-done-in-the-district-according-to/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [“Because you deserve a duke, damn it!” A troubled expression furrowed his brow. “You deserve a man who can give you the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabrina-jeffries/because-you-deserve-a-duke-damn-it-a-troubled-expression-furrowed-his/)

[Sabrina Jeffries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabrina-jeffries/)

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> [“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/no-respecter-of-evidence-has-ever-found-the-least-clue-as-to-what/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

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> [“Don't promote yourself as a country of constitutionality and compassion if you honestly believe that putting people in prison and treating them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-b-kerik/don-t-promote-yourself-as-a-country-of-constitutionality-and/)

Bernard B. Kerik

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> [“He was like some prophet of old, scourging the sins of the people. He leaped about in a frenzy of inspiration till…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-g-wodehouse/he-was-like-some-prophet-of-old-scourging-the-sins-of-the-people-he/)

[P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-g-wodehouse/)

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                        "text": "“It was one of those words that tended to brook no further questioning, and Harmigan had applied his very best evocation of Dirk Bogarde’s insouciance when delivering the line. Concern over the Service’s record had fizzled out soon after: the country was facing more pressing issues than the spooks’ ancient history. Grave errors, it was decided, had been made, but there was nothing to be gained by harping on about them and one simply slept better if one accepted that, after all, these chaps were fundamentally decent people who knew what they were doing. In this way, the Service’s deeper secrets had been protected.”",
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                        "text": "“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and irresolute -- every intimacy, which at first so agreeably diversifies life and appears a light and charming adventure, inevitably grows into a regular problem of extreme intricacy, and in the long run the situation becomes unbearable. But at every fresh meeting with an interesting woman this experience seemed to slip out of his memory, and he was eager for life, and everything seemed simple and amusing.”",
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                        "text": "Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed.",
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                        "text": "“To many an upright poor person, it seems needless to invent a god who will wash the feet of beggars and exalt those who do not care to labor. What is this but a denial of thrift and a sickly obsession with the victim? The so-called common people are quite able to penetrate this ruse (“The good lord must indeed love the poor, since he made so many of them”). Many decent people are made uneasy by the constant injunction to give alms and to dwell among those who have lost their self-respect. They can also see the hook sticking out of the bait: abandon this useless life, leave your family, and follow the prophet who says that the world is soon to pass away. Such an injunction coupled with an implicit or explicit “or else” is repulsive to many conservatives who believe in self-reliance and personal integrity, and who distrust “charity,” just as it was repulsive to the early socialists who did not think that poverty was an ideal or romantic or ennobled state.”",
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                        "text": "“For every bad man and woman I have ever known, I have met . . . an overwhelming number of thoroughly clean and decent people who still believe in God and cherish high ideals, and it is upon the lives of these people that I base what I write. To contend that this does not produce a picture true to life is idiocy. It does. It produces a picture true to ideal life; to the best that good men and good women can do at level best. I care very little for the . . . critics who proclaim that there is no such thing as a moral man, and that my pictures of life are sentimental and idealized. They are! And I glory in them! They are straight, living pictures from the lives of men and women of morals, honor, and loving kindness. . . . Such a big majority of book critics and authors have begun to teach, whether they really believe it or not, that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life.”",
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                        "text": "“It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And as I've told you before, I tell you again; it's not right for you not to go to the meetings, and altogether to keep out of the district business. If decent people won't go into it, of course it's bound to go all wrong. We pay the money, and it all goes in salaries, and there are no schools, not district nurses, nor midwives, nor drug-stores ---nothing [...] How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert...dies without help? The ignorant peasant-women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don't help them because to your mind it's of no importance.\" And Sergey Ivanovitch put before him the alternative: either you are so undeveloped that you can't see all that you can do , or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever IT is, to do it.”",
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                        "text": "“Because you deserve a duke, damn it!” A troubled expression furrowed his brow. “You deserve a man who can give you the moon. I can’t. I can give you a decent home in a decent part of town with decent people, but you…” His voice grew choked. “You’re the most amazing woman I’ve ever known. It destroys me to think of what you’ll have to give up to be with me.” “I told you before-I don’t care!” she said hotly. “Why can’t you believe me?” He hesitated a long moment. “The truth?” “Always.” “Because I can’t imagine why you’d want me when you have men of rank and riches at your fingertips.” She gave a rueful laugh. “You grossly exaggerate my charms, but I can’t complain. It’s one of many things I adore about you-that you see a better version of me than I ever could.” Remembering the wonderful words he’d said last night when she’d been so self-conscious, she left the bed to walk up to him. “Do you know what I see when I look at you?” His wary gaze locked with hers. “Proper Pinter. Proud Pinter. ” “Yes, but that’s just who you show to the world to protect yourself.” She reached up to stroke his cheek, reveling in the ragged breath that escaped him. “When you let down your guard, however, I see Jackson-who ferrets out the truth, no matter how hard. Who risks his own life to protect the weak. Who’d sacrifice anything to prevent me from having to sacrifice everything.” Catching her hand, he halted its path. “You see a saint,” he said hoarsely. “I’m not a saint; I’m a man with needs and desires and a great many rough edges.” “I like your rough edges,” she said with a soft smile. “If I’d really wanted a man of rank and riches, I probably would have married long ago. I always told myself I couldn’t marry because no one wanted me, but the truth was, I didn’t want any of them.” She fingered a lock of hair. “Apparently I was waiting for you , rough edges and all.” His eyes turned hot with wanting. Drawing her hand to his lips, he kissed the palm so tenderly that her heart leapt into her throat. When he lifted his head, he said, “Then marry me, rough edges and all.” She swallowed. “That’s what you say now, when we’re alone and you’re caught up in-“ He covered her mouth with his, kissing her so fervently that she turned into a puddle of mush. Blast him-he always did that, too, when they were alone; it was when they were with others that he reconsidered their being together forever. And he still had said nothing of live. “That’s enough of that,” she warned, drawing back from him. “Until you make a proper proposal, before my family, you’re not sharing my bed.” “Sweeting-“ “Don’t you ‘sweeting’ me, Jackson Pinter.” She edged away from him. “I want Proper Pinter back now.” A mocking smile crossed his lips. “Sorry, love. I threw him out when I saw how he was mucking up my private life.” Love? No, she wouldn’t let that soften her. Not until she was sure he wouldn’t turn cold later. “You told Oliver you’d behave like a gentleman.” “To hell with your brother.” He stalked her with clear intent. Even as she darted behind a chair to avoid him, excitement tore through her. “Aren’t you still worried Gran will cut me off, and you’ll be saddled with a spoiled wife and not enough money to please her?” “To hell with your grandmother, too. For that matter, to hell with the money.” He tossed the chair aside as if it were so much kindling; it clattered across the floor. “It’s you I want.”",
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                        "text": "“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it. Oh, there have been lots of brilliant guesses. But honest, educated people have to identify with them as such--as guesses. What are guesses worth? Scientifically and legally, they are not worth doodley-squat. As the saying goes: “Your guess is as good as mine.” The guesses we like best, as with so many things we like best, were taught to us in childhood--by people who loved us and wished us well. We are reluctant to criticize those guesses. It is an ultimate act of rudeness to find fault with anything which is given to us in a spirit of love. So a modern, secular education is often painful. By its very nature, it invites us to question the wisdom of the ones we love. Too bad. I have said that one guess is as good as another, but that is only roughly so. Some guesses are crueler than others--which is to say, harder on human beings, and on other animals as well. The belief that God wants heretics burned to death is a case in point. Some guesses are more suicidal than others. The belief that a true lover of God is immune to the bites of copperheads and rattlesnakes is a case in point. Some guesses are greedier and more egocentric than others. Belief in the divine right of kings and presidents is a case in point. Those are all discredited guesses. But it is reasonable to suppose that other bad guesses are poisoning our lives today. A good education in skepticism can help us to discover those bad guesses, and to destroy them with mockery and contempt. Most of them were made by honest, decent people who had no way of knowing what we know, or what we can find out, if we want to. We have one hell of a lot of good information about our bodies, about our planet, and the universe--about our past. We don’t have to guess as much as the old folks did. Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, “Sir, you did not give us enough information.” I would add to that, “All the same, Sir, I’m not persuaded that we did the best we could with the information we had. Toward the end there, anyway, we had tons of information.”",
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                        "text": "“Don't promote yourself as a country of constitutionality and compassion if you honestly believe that putting people in prison and treating them like animals is justified. Stop all the hype that we live in a free and democratic society. I used to ramble on about the same stuff. But now—are we really a country that believes in fairness and compassion? Are we really a country that treats people fairly? I've met good men—yes, good men—in prison who made mistakes out of stupidity or ignorance, greed, or just bad judgment, but they did not need to be sent to prison to be punished; eighteen months for catching too many fish; two years for inflating income on a mortgage application; three months for selling a whale's tooth on eBay; fifteen years for a first-time nonviolent drug conspiracy in which no drugs were found or seized. There are thousands of people like these in our prisons today, costing American taxpayers billions of dollars when these individuals could be punished in smarter, alternative ways. Our courts are overpunishing decent people who make mistakes, and our prisons have no rewards or incentives for good behavior. In this alone criminal justice and prison systems contradict their own mission statements (244).”",
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                        "text": "“He was like some prophet of old, scourging the sins of the people. He leaped about in a frenzy of inspiration till I feared he would do himself an injury. Sometimes he expressed himself in a somewhat odd manner, but every word carried conviction. He showed me New York in its true colours. He showed me the vanity and wickedness of sitting in gilded haunts of vice, eating lobster when decent people should be in bed. 'He said that the tango and the fox-trot were devices of the devil to drag people down into the Bottomless Pit. He said that there was more sin in ten minutes with a negro banjo orchestra than in all the ancient revels of Nineveh and Babylon. And when he stood on one leg and pointed right at where I was sitting and shouted \"This means you!\" I could have sunk through the floor.”",
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