Decent Quotes - Page 30

• With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

  Bryan Ward-Perkins

  Art, Philosophy, Fall

  Bryan Ward-Perkins (2006). “The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization”, p.13, OUP Oxford

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• 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.

  Angelina Jolie

  People, Focus, Needs

  "'Do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman?'". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.today.com. June 6, 2005.

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• 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

  Wisdom, Believe, Long

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• One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice." Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

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• Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Believe, People

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• The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Strong, Taken, Mean

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• There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.

  Gordon Stein

  Atheist, Believe, Numbers

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• Dream big so even if you don't hit the top you will make it somewhere decent.

  Scott Disick

  Dream, Bigs, Ifs

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• While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Becoming, Coders

  Source: www.shlomifish.org

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• I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.

  William Saroyan

  Thinking, Males, Female

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• 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.

  Che Guevara

  Hands, Oligarchy, Eras

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.170, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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

  Pope Francis

  Essentials, Unions, Impossible

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• Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.

  Dustin Poirier

  Athlete, Scumbags, Seems

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• The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

  Stewart Brand

  Earth, Problem, Surface

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sleep, Night, Light

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Men, Snakes

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• Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Retirement, Risk

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• I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Country, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Strong, Lying

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 23 January 2007

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• Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

  Joe Biden

  Should Have, Week, Shots

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• When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are good, it is a decent thing to do - aid work is good and quite human - but it is not Christian poverty, which St. Paul desires of us and preaches to us. Christian poverty is that I give of my own, and not of that which is left over - I give even that, which I need for myself, to the poor person, because I know that he enriches me. Why does the poor person enrich me? Because Jesus Himself told us that He is in the poor person.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Agency

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• 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

  Party, Space, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.

  Ed Sullivan

  Country, Real, Boys

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• Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?

  Emma Goldman

  Body, Waste, Week

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• 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

  Plato, Should Have, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.436, Routledge

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