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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ... — Andy Rooney

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot

I think people can be very nice and charming without being decent human beings. — Claire Hennessy

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

He said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing. — Peter F. Hamilton

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them — William F. Buckley Jr.

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. — Charlton Heston

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

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. — Colin Wilson

If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good. — Andrew Lo

Adam knew it was childish, but he rationalized it in this way: carelessly harming other people was a decent stand-in for baseline human interaction. — Warren Ellis

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

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

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

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. — Bernie Sanders

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. — Howard Zinn

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

Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us. — Ernesto Sabato

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people. — Jacque Fresco

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

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror. — Napoleon Bonaparte

One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. — M. M. Musselman

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. — Adam Smith

Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. — Robert A. Heinlein

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. — Barbara Cartland

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins. — Tony Snow

The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy. — Mary Connealy

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around. — David Foster Wallace

What kind of country has this become? Decent people can't do anything without being watched. — Dan Groat

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

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

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. — W. Somerset Maugham

In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I didn't get good employees. — Louise Hay

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country. — David Cameron

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

Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage. — Kingsley Amis

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea. — Mike Birbiglia

Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care. — John Fowles

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave. — Michael Arad

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

When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence. — Tawni O'Dell

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter. — J.K. Rowling

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top. — Frances O'Grady

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary? — Janusz Korczak

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

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

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people. — Sloane Crosley

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

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated. — Sherman Alexie

Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America. — Bob Casey Jr.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh. — Moliere

It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent. — Jack Hunter

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. — Charles W. Pickering

There is a world of good you can do without even realizing it, if you decide that today, just today, you're going to be decent to the people you meet. — Jack Tyler

The criminal law is no use to decent people. — George Bernard Shaw

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. — George Orwell

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

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons. — Tony Snow

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

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. — Johnny Vegas

Sometimes decent people must do indecent things. — John Hennessy

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

People think by challenging me they're going to show they're tough. But I'm not tough. Decent drinker. Not such a bad kisser. But not a great fighter. — Johnny Knoxville

Even decent people can have awful friends. — Anna Jarzab

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent. — John Steinbeck

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

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. — Orson Scott Card

Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss. — Marlon James

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

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

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

Why can't you be decent to people?" she asked. "Fear," I said. — Charles Bukowski

It is how decent, civilized people behave, Captain Ransom. Though I suppose that to someone of your level of moral fortitude, it must seem remarkable. — Jim Butcher

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

I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded. — Robert Boswell

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

I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard. — Tyson Fury

If you're decent to people, you'll usually find out they're decent people, too. — Amy Lane

You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis

I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches — R.K. Lilley

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people. — Caleb Carr

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

The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses. — James Joyce

You can fool some of the people some of the time
and that's enough to make a decent living. — W.C. Fields

I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently. — Larry David

We can spot the people's ugliness sometimes even-though they tried to speak decent — Jem

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss. — Ken Bruen

I think most people in the world are decent if they're not suffering. — Simon Van Booy

Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else. — Jack Nicholson

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings. — Paolo Bacigalupi

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