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Decent Standard Quotes

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible. E. O. Wilson
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. Thabo Mbeki
Paul Tsongas quote: "Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have..."
Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living. Paul Tsongas
We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities. Mike Lowry
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. John L. Lewis
Norman Borlaug quote: "The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a..."
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. Norman Borlaug
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo quote: "I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living,..."
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. Daniel Ellsberg
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work. George Orwell
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. Noam Chomsky
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. Bernard Sanders
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God. Alan Keyes

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