We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
“It's not just college grades that fall in a curve. Human decency is bell-shaped, with some of us slopping over the edges.… — Alex Adams Copy Share Image
Protecting our communities and ensuring that every person, regardless of their status, is treated fairly is a matter of justice and decency. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to… — Shelley Fabares Copy Share Image
As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best… — John McCain Copy Share Image
In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
“There are people who carry decency and optimism around with them, who seem to cleanse every atmosphere they settle in, and you… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal.… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
For eight years, President Obama represented us with class and with grace and with elegance and with decency. There were no scandals.… — Ryan Clark Copy Share Image
The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success… — Jon Stewart 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
You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I’d better get going or Valek will be wondering where I am.” “Yes, by all means go. I noticed you and Valek… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British… — Philip French Copy Share Image
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Traditionally, when a man’s body is forcibly removed from the waist down by a cannonball, they have the decency to perish in… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
Im single so my only sense of decency has any say about where you leave your dirty clothes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.” — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
If you want to live in a world without judgmentalism, it also means living in a world without morality and decency. — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Politics are not my concern… They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself… — Fanny Burney 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
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency. — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. To find that answer, we need only look within… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
