No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“- How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose? - I spit on your head, Ivan… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat? — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly. — Tyrus Copy Share Image
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person. — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
Come on, that was no foul! It may be a violation of all the basic rules of human decency, but its not… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another.… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent,… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“Have you no honor? No decency? No damn brains? You don’t kill me with bullets. You just piss me off. And you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“The most spiritual people I’ve ever met were not “givers” they were communicators. You don’t give people crumbs. You give them the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a… — John Locke Copy Share Image
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There are no points for civility or decency when it comes to prosecuting the campaign against Donald Trump. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." “Sorry,” I admitted. “I’ve been going through a bit of… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
