Decent People Quotes
48 quotes by 47 authors
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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
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People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
— Graydon Carter
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Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
— Bob Casey, Jr.
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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
— Tony Snow
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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
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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
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Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.
— Jack Nicholson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
— Moliere
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The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.
— James Joyce
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One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.
— Meir Kahane
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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