Decent Life Quotes

25 Decent Life quotes by 22 unique authors

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they… — Erik Erikson
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right… — Nelson Mandela
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
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
There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for… — Eustace Conway
The proclamation of the Gospel is destined primarily to the poor, to those who often lack the essentials for a decent life. The good news… — Pope Francis
A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught — Katherine Boo
Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet.… — Sha Zukang
We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish… — Temple Grandin
Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to… — James Nesbitt
These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to change the situation… — Jan Cameron
The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more… — John Holdren
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A… — Robert Higgs
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more… — Dennis Prager
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which… — Salman Rushdie
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty… — Peter Singer
For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at… — Barack Obama
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of… — Frederik Pohl
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet… — Jodi Picoult
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every… — Kazuo Ishiguro
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another… — Hunter S. Thompson
The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would… — C.S. Lewis
I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals… — Temple Grandin
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents… — Katherine Boo
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. — Mohsin Hamid

Who Wrote These Decent Life Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 25 Decent Life Quotes as follows: