When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a… — Mary McAleese Copy Share Image
When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
“Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.” — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016. — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted… — Michael King Copy Share Image
“I suppose the test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships . . . which are basically a reflection of… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers.… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Because, if you stop to think of it, the three Rules of Robotics are the essential guiding principles of a good many… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
“Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
You're a great brother. You give us a heart attack worrying about your heart attack, which you didn't even have the decency… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering… — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
“We delude ourselves if we think that decency is not rewarded in other people simply because we refuse to practice it ourselves.” — Sarah Scheele Copy Share Image
“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
