Decent Quotes

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

I think it is easy for people to build up an image of what I'm about. I consider myself quite a nice chappy really. I'm decent to people, I stay in and listen to Radio 4.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

I wish we could be decent to each other.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

People will say what they want to say, and it's okay. And my life will go on, and I need to focus on my life. So, do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman? I sure hope I don't. I know I am.

I try to stay in decent shape.

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.