Best Decent People Quotes
48 Decent People quotes by 47 unique authors
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Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just…
— Ron Fournier
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Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
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I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people…
— Newt Gingrich
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The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent…
— James Earl Jones
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I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many…
— Michael Palin
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Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need…
— Tim Wise
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Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
— Orson Scott Card
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To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing…
— Georges Bataille
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One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do.…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
— Stephen Fry
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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got…
— Raymond Chandler
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She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?
— Rachel Vincent
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He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in…
— Hugh Howey
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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and…
— Frank Borman
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I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing…
— Alicia Keys
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Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.
— Mike Birbiglia
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I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with…
— John Yarmuth
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DEAR GIRLS, Not all guys want SEX. Some of them want a relationship. Not all guys like Call of Duty because loving you is more…
— Nylle
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To some folk, if not to most folk, decency means pretending that the nastier things in life do not really exist. Decent people hide things,…
— Unknown Author
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When someone puts you down and treats you badly, just remember there is something wrong with them, not you. Decent people will not go around…
— Unkown
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