“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. — Khaleda Zia Copy Share Image
“Faye, if you got eaten by another shark, would you please at least have the decency to say so? My time is… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“X secretly castigates himself and wonder where his basic decency and compassion are.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Protecting our communities and ensuring that every person, regardless of their status, is treated fairly is a matter of justice and decency. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of Obama, with the crimes he's committed, in office, publicly, and gotten by with that, you… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
“During the whole of the fucking Middle Ages, the place where they had it off most of all was the cemeteries!...people don't… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“And seriously, if we as a society can’t even bother to treat a simple, unassuming, stunningly gentle and demonstrably sentient creature like… — Propagandhi Copy Share Image
The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty- four hours. But certain men, either from the love… — Philipp Melanchthon Copy Share Image
Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have… — Fritz Stern Copy Share Image
If you deconstruct the movies that have done well, Pixar-type movies that do incredibly well and make hundreds of millions of dollars,… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to… — Shelley Fabares Copy Share Image
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
There are only so many things you can do in life, and if you think I'm going to spend my waking hours… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
“It's not just college grades that fall in a curve. Human decency is bell-shaped, with some of us slopping over the edges.… — Alex Adams Copy Share Image
“Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own… — Scott Jurek Copy Share Image
“You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“There's always a little decency in the worst places… and always little secret selfishness in the best.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Justice is the reason we have law, and law is man’s feeble attempt to teach decency to others.” — Joy Ratcliff Cagle Copy Share Image
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world. — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
“You don't need to have a quirk to show common decency toward those cast out and abused, because of something they have… — Nikki Navarro Copy Share Image
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency. — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor… — Carl Panzram Copy Share Image
“We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards… — Joel Solomon Copy Share Image
“I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
