Decent People Quotes

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

Mark Shields

#2. The twins turned out well, not because of anything that Craig or his wife did but because of the kind of people they are. Good, decent people who always put the needs of their children ahead of their own. It was never more complicated than love, one generation raising a better version of the next.

Jung Yun

#3. There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

Stephen Fry

#4. 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 to run for public office.

Newt Gingrich

#5. Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

J.K. Rowling

#6. That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

Bertrand Russell

#7. There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

Justin Vernon

#8. 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 their son Gaylord Focker.

Robert De Niro

#9. 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 policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives

Barry Goldwater

#10. To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.

Alec Baldwin

#11. A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

George Orwell

#12. I am pleased with the exhibition ... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste ...

Claude Monet

#13. People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Graydon Carter

#14. 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

#15. I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches

R.K. Lilley

#16. 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 happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

Daniel Cormier

#17. Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.

Jim Ratcliffe

#18. He said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.

Peter F. Hamilton

#19. Police only have to see that me don't have no shoes before he say what the bloodcloth you nasty naiggers doing 'round decent people, and give me two choices.

Marlon James

#20. Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss.

Marlon James

#21. The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

James Joyce

#22. 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 you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank Borman

#23. 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

#24. When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we live together like decent people?

Frank Borman

#25. If you can create a weapon that causes enough fear the fear itself can cause damage that's as paralyzing and destructive as any physical device like a bomb or a laser gun. Fear can make decent people behave irrationally and violently.

Patricia Cornwell

#26. If he did this to you, he would have rationalized it somehow. That's how decent people justify bad behavior. In

Blake Crouch

#27. Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#28. The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

Howard Zinn

#29. Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

Robert A. Heinlein

#30. Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

Bob Casey Jr.

#31. She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?

Rachel Vincent

#32. She was a good witch and a decent person, but decent people aren't always easy to live with.

Ursula Vernon

#33. 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 power and then fall under their spell.

Hugh Howey

#34. One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge ... It is too sacred to be profaned.

Fulton J. Sheen

#35. The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

Sydney J. Harris

#36. At a time like this with damage and disorder everywhere, no tale is too absurd to be believed and even decent people seek something on which to vent their anger.

Madeleine Brent

#37. How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

Tom Lantos

#38. Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

Tony Snow

#39. I have loved and been loved, thoroughly and deeply by good and decent people who believed in me. Who let me dare to believe in myself.

Carolee Dean

#40. The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles W. Pickering

#41. Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

Jack Nicholson

#42. The elite denizens of Washington and Wall Street scorn and mock the good and decent people of this country for wanting their laws enforced and their communities protected.

Jeff Sessions

#43. 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 loose.

James Earl Jones

#44. 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 whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.

John Yarmuth

#45. 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 a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

Dan Castellaneta

#46. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell. Troy

Hugh Howey

#47. 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. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

Jennifer Donnelly

#48. Decent people live around here and that's how we're going to live. You're Americans now. He had his Chivas Regal bottle on his knee.

Junot Diaz

#49. Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Sherman Alexie

#50. These are challenges," Jack told her. "That's it. We are going to win. You know why? Because it doesn't matter if you're in a fairy tale or here in real life, doing the right thing still counts for something. We're going to win because we're good, decent people trying to accomplish something noble.

James Riley

#51. As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

Fulton J. Sheen

#52. The world's been turned upside down. The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor.

Anne Frank

#53. So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

Howard Zinn

#54. 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 you down.

Alicia Keys

#55. Sometimes decent people must do indecent things.

John Hennessy

#56. It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

Moliere

#57. I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.

Brendan Gleeson

#58. Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

Orson Scott Card

#59. 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.

Jean Kwok

#60. 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 start over. Come along, the dream whispers, and you can have another chance. We still listen to promises in the wind. This time, we think, we'll get it right.

William Kittredge

#61. Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

William F. Buckley Jr.

#62. Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.

Robin Hobb

#63. 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 people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

Michael Palin

#64. Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

Janusz Korczak

#65. One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Meir Kahane

#66. 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 that send young kids down the road to be Ted Bundys.

Ted Bundy

#67. Even decent people can have awful friends.

Anna Jarzab

#68. Social media is a great tool for all of us introverts and decent people alike as it speeds up the time between thinking someone is great and realizing they're the worst. I

Amy Schumer

#69. Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

Ron Fournier

#70. And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

Ken Bruen

#71. People think it way past the time when anybody can remember who start things first, but don't get the history of the ghetto twist up, decent people. Buntin-Banton and Dishrag start it first. And when PNP win the 1972 election all hell break loose. First

Marlon James

#72. Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

Mike Birbiglia

#73. 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 and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

George Mikes

#74. If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

Albert Camus

#75. What kind of country has this become? Decent people can't do anything without being watched.

Dan Groat

#76. A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

Val McDermid

#77. Because we both know the tide's turning. The decent people in this country are sick to death of being held hostage by mad liberals in Brussels, and the sooner we take control over our own future, our own borders -

Mick Herron

#78. Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Tony Snow

#79. Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#80. If you're decent to people, you'll usually find out they're decent people, too.

Amy Lane

#81. Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

Fran Lebowitz

#82. I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

Evan Sayet

#83. It is hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.

Lemony Snicket

#84. The criminal law is no use to decent people.

George Bernard Shaw

#85. 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

#86. 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 the ground cut out from under them ... Decent people lost their jobs ... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.

Raymond Chandler

#87. The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

Caleb Carr

#88. She was being nice, and Oscar was always reminding me that most people are fundamentally decent and that it doesn't pay to think badly of them.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#89. The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.

C.S. Lewis

#90. I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.

Michael Mann

#91. What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.

Ernie Harwell

#92. There's no self-expression or joy in these joints
no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun.

Caitlin Moran

#93. Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you're not helping people, just servicing the machine.

Claire North

#94. People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get them all down. I am here today to let the world know my greatest influence, my secret ingredient, really. What inspires me? That's simple: COFFEE.

Corey Taylor

#95. Personally, I like to hang out in the kitchen. That's my safe space in a party environment. I feel like it's a little quieter so you can actually have conversations with people, and anybody else who's also in the kitchen is probably someone I can have a decent conversation with.

Hannah Hart

#96. Odd thing, ain't it ... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls." "That's mob rule!

Terry Pratchett

#97. Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us.

Ernesto Sabato

#98. Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

Kevin Plank

#99. People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

P. J. O'Rourke

#100. For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.

Larry Fitzgerald