Decent Quotes
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.
All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
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 people will lose.
I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
When you love what you do, more than likely everything is gonna just come out decent.
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.
You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.
Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.
An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.
Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'
War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.
The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.
Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood