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
Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us -… — Michael Bennett Copy Share Image
When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at… — Mary Fulbrook Copy Share Image
There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent,… — David Limbaugh 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
It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who… — Edith Wharton 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
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
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
“Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who… — John Kendrick Bangs 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
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph N. Welch Copy Share Image
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
“When we insult others, it says nothing about them but it shows how vulgar we are.” — Leonard Seet Copy Share Image
The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty -… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
