Decent Quotes

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

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

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

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.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

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?

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

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

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

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.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

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

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.