“The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.” PersonsFactsLiteratureAliveNormalDecent Author:Allen Ginsberg
“The tragedy is what - given the 'right circumstances,' - normal decent folks, like you and me, will do. This is what makes me worry whenever looking on the road that Israel entered and shows no intention of leaving.” ShowsGivenWorryLike YouCircumstancesNormalTragedyIntentionLeavingFolksIsraelDecent Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“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.” PeopleTryingGivenHalfPovertyBehaviorNormalStandardsOrdinaryMadParisFallenDecentSolitaryGatheringGiven UpEccentricGrooveSlumsGathering Places Book:The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
“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.” MenMadeEndsAgeConditionsCircumstancesNormalSlaveBoundsAll TimeDecentCowardCasualOwingPresent TimeDecent Man Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky