“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
“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
Life shouldn't be about arbitrary power, for power's sake, but about respect, mutuality, decency. — John Whaite Copy Share Image
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Say what you will about ‘decency’ but I happen to be a fan of skimpy tube tops and really short skirts.” — Cyma Rizwaan Khan Copy Share Image
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer 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
“No decent person deliberately chooses to be violent or cruel. We must remove our blinkers and learn that in order to live… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke 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
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
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
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If I have a strong dislike for something, obviously that garners an equal amount of derision, towards me from the audience. And… — Carrie Brownstein 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
“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
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death. — Alice Hoffman 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
At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets… — Eminem 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
“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
Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves. — Glenn Reynolds 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
We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others… — Michelle Obama 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
“Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into… — Sorin Suciu 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
