Decency Quote by Nevil Shute

“There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.”

Nevil Shute

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The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make…

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“By 1948 I was safe on my feet and able to get about quite normally, but I was thirty-four and life was slipping past me. I could not face burial alive in Coombargana at that age after all that I had been and done during the war, and I began to feel I should go crazy if I didn’t get…

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“You could have done something with newspapers. We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers…

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“Until we’re dead, we Service people, the world will always be in danger of another war. We had too good a time in the last one. We’ll none of us come out into the open and admit it. It might be better for us if we did. [...] For our generation, the war years were the best time of our…

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If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we…

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She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it…

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I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

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“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,” he said, “from whence cometh my help.”

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Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash…

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When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to…

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You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

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“Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.”

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Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws… There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased…

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Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

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If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or the right. If they are on the opinion of the right thing, that's what I will talk about. I won't proselytize or make the strong things to influence other people about any particular politics, except the decency of…

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