“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
They are inherently good -- the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
“There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger 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
“But where the ideas of morality and decency alter from one age to another, and where vicious manners are described, without being… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel 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
You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different.… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
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
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness…Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator.… — Joseph N. Welch Copy Share Image
I do not have to agree with everything a candidate believes, but I do have to believe that they represent core American… — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
When I am a good guy on TV, my character tends to be almost identical to how I am as a real… — Mojo Rawley Copy Share Image
Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency,… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament… Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration,… — Emma Forrest 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
“And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? Exactly the same as we behaved… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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