Decent Quotes

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On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war.… — Lewis Blaine Hershey
Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else. — Jack Nicholson
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public… — Barry Goldwater
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our… — Mark Udall
Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that… — Langston Hughes
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. — Alexander Pushkin
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal… — Robert Audi
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in… — Socrates
I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life… — William Kittredge
Kids are always infatuated with the action in Martial Arts Films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the Arts. That… — Thomas Ian Griffith
Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and… — William Kittredge
Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones? — Jenny Han
The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth. — George H. W. Bush
To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A… — Barbara Smoker
The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about… — Joseph McCabe
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media… — Frances O'Grady
I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and… — Owen Hart
In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I… — Louise Hay
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who… — John C. Danforth

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