“You don't need to have a quirk to show common decency toward those cast out and abused, because of something they have… — Nikki Navarro Copy Share Image
“We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards… — Joel Solomon 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
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
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
But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential… — Jimmy Carter 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
“I suppose the test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring,… — Anonymous 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
“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships . . . which are basically a reflection of… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers.… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“I did not care if Ella went to Princeton, if she was exceptionally pretty, if she grew up to marry a rich… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
As you know, in this democracy, in order to have a healthy democracy, we have to get to the common good. But… — Matthew Dowd 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
I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those… — William Holden Copy Share Image
I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an… — John Wesley 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
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
“I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want… — Lynn Samuels 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
“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
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
“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
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own… — Scott Jurek Copy Share Image
“There's always a little decency in the worst places… and always little secret selfishness in the best.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for… — Nenia Campbell 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
I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
