Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

— Kurt Vonnegut

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

— Paul Rusesabagina

“We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard-of doctrines, a time…

— J Budziszewski

“Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“ONE OF the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.…

— H.L. Mencken

“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein

“Against such a background one can easily imagine the shock that must have gripped readers of The Times of London, who turned to their…

— Anonymous

“You might not get the apology you deserve. You might not get answers to explain the actions of others. You might not get truth…

— Shannon L. Alder

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

— H. L. Mencken

“We would do well, as Orwell counselled, to see the traces of the dystopian around us, to find the ends of those threads and…

— Darran Anderson

“Listen, we’re going to have to learn to get along if we’re going to be spending the next three months together. So how about…

— Sophie Monroe

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of…

— H. L. Mencken