Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead 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
“The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the… — Stewart Dalzell 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
“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
Human rights without responsibility, without a sense of decency, a sense of compassion, is not good enough for a society to flourish...… — Tu Weiming Copy Share Image
“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
... 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
Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or… — Terry Eagleton 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
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The only difference between the women I've dated and Charles Manson is that Manson has the decency to look like a nut… — Richard Jeni 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
Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a… — H. L. Mencken 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
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
