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
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
We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens… — Francine Rivers 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
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking… — William Thomas Green Morton 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
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment,… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are… — Michael Short Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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