Decent People Quotes

48 quotes by 47 authors

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. — Lionel Blue
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. — Graydon Carter
Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America. — Bob Casey, Jr.
Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons. — Tony Snow
I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named… — Robert De Niro
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in… — Dan Castellaneta
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
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
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
Well-meaning, decent people will condemn the behavior of a Ted Bundy, while they're walking past a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things… — Ted Bundy
It's an odd job, making decent people laugh. — Moliere
The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses. — James Joyce
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent. — Meir Kahane
Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business… — George Mikes
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both. — Hector Hugh Munro
Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without. — Jeff Cooper
No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things… — Daniel Cormier
That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much… — Laurie Penny
The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. — Charles W. Pickering

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