Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different.… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
They are inherently good -- the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When I am a good guy on TV, my character tends to be almost identical to how I am as a real… — Mojo Rawley Copy Share Image
Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency,… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness…Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator.… — Joseph N. Welch Copy Share Image
I do not have to agree with everything a candidate believes, but I do have to believe that they represent core American… — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament… Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive,… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
