Quotes on Decent Man

I just loved him and he loved me... He was a most humble man, the most decent man I've ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me. He said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily and even though I left the church and was not religious, that truth remained with me.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.