“But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague. — Susan Andersen Copy Share Image
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
If you are going to cover yourself for warmth and decency, you might as well cover yourself interestingly or well. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized… — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that,… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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