The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
“A girl in the buff, does not invite a man to the buff! Decency is a lifestyle.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“How dare you, I repeat, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose?” — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.” — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Do you have no sense of decency?" He pauses, seems to think about this, then turns and walks out the door.” — Carolyn Crane Copy Share Image
“Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“And what if I think you're doing this out of misguided sense of decency?" "Oh, any sense of decency I possess is… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
“But what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Is he a scumbag in training?” Richard glanced at the gunman. “At least have the decency to hold the gun properly, you… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
“Decency: the inexplicable: the ground of all ethics. Things we do not do. We do not stare when the soul leaves the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Maybe I owe you something too, human," she said, drawing her pistol. Butler almost reacted, but decided to give Holly the benefit… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us -… — Michael Bennett Copy Share Image
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have… — Robert Peston Copy Share Image
“The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she… — George Sand Copy Share Image
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“[...]the best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
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