There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The way Trump talks about Obama: presidents don't do that! What we're seeing now is a whole new level of vulgarity. I'm… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking… — William Thomas Green Morton Copy Share Image
I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? Exactly the same as we behaved… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all.… — Kris Jenner Copy Share Image
With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment,… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are… — Michael Short Copy Share Image
Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it… — Robert M. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
What happened to our nation on a September day set in motion the first great struggle of a new century. The enemies… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
“There was also the Argument of Increasing Decency, which basically held that cruelty was linked to stupidity and that the link between… — Ian M. Banks Copy Share Image
“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what we are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology.… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
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