“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
Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“It never seems to occur to such "criminals" that to behave with decency to another human being might also be "gratuitous.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people… — John Morrison 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
“Tristan flexed his jaw. “How is it that you seem to have no sense of decency when it comes to your personal… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy… — Wangari Maathai 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
“Thinking like a Freak may sometimes sound like an exercise in using clever means to get exactly what you want, and there’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle,… — Anton Chekhov 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
It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am… — Erica Tazel Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
“No woman deserves to be treated as little more than your toy. If you feel she is nothing more than a cheap… — Melody Anne Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“She said, 'Goodbye, Reuben, a love for decency does not abide in you.' There is your divorced woman talking about decency. I… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage… — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will… — Harvey Korman Copy Share Image
There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to… — Jake Tapper 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
“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
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