A Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Indecent Person Saint Society

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Kurt Vonnegut
American - Writer
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

George Bernard Shaw

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

Edward James Olmos

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint

Edward James Olmos

To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical.

Richard Cohen

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Vikram Seth

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.

Jake Tapper

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.

Alan King

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

Danny Boyle

The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.