Decent Quotes

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But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up… — Lena Dunham
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all… — Martin McDonagh
The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely an… — Land ethic
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks… — Dave Stevens
Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice… — Myles Horton
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for… — Randy Cohen
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated… — H. L. Mencken
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive… — Noam Chomsky
I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time,… — Ray Charles
Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human… — William Watson Purkey
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning. — Stephen Jay Gould
But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works… — John F. Kennedy
I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate… — Dale Carnegie
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction. — Don Roff
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National… — Smedley Butler
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent. — Meir Kahane
A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at… — Frances O'Grady
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't. — Frances O'Grady
Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one thing… — Jeff Cooper
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing… — David Korten

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