Decent Quotes

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The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity,… — Peter Garrett
What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and… — Richard M. Nixon
People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get… — Corey Taylor
People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we… — Barack Obama
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right… — George Bernard Shaw
A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the… — Roy Bean
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… — Wendell Berry
The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was. — David McCord
I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail - but I don't get many bad letters - but I… — Betty White
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that… — George Jean Nathan
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 our economic system… — John Holdren
And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds… — Ray Bradbury
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies. — John J. Sweeney
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have… — Kenneth E. Boulding
Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait. — Paulo Coelho
Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate. — Paulo Coelho
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and… — James Madison
It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there. — Frederic Loewe

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