“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.”
“If you’re decent to people, you’ll usually find out they’re decent people, too.”
“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”
“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”
“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”
“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly uninteresting that immoral people can hide them and moral people cannot find them.”