People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No woman deserves to be treated as little more than your toy. If you feel she is nothing more than a cheap… — Melody Anne Copy Share Image
There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
“I did not care if Ella went to Princeton, if she was exceptionally pretty, if she grew up to marry a rich… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
As you know, in this democracy, in order to have a healthy democracy, we have to get to the common good. But… — Matthew Dowd Copy Share Image
It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“But where the ideas of morality and decency alter from one age to another, and where vicious manners are described, without being… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
“She said, 'Goodbye, Reuben, a love for decency does not abide in you.' There is your divorced woman talking about decency. I… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“humanity held certain goodness, certain decency; that by treating others fairly, the same fairness would be bestowed upon him. Over the past… — T.W. Piperbrook Copy Share Image
When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage… — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will… — Harvey Korman Copy Share Image
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am… — Erica Tazel Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters "punch that guy in the face." I… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
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