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
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
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have… — Clarence Darrow 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
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
“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 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
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
I am a Stormdancer! Mere metal is nothing compared with the power of a storm." Kade made his voice boom and spread… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
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
“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
“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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and… — Joseph Epstein 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
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
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
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
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of… — Ted Koppel 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
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
Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
“humanity held certain goodness, certain decency; that by treating others fairly, the same fairness would be bestowed upon him. Over the past… — T.W. Piperbrook Copy Share Image
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will… — Harvey Korman Copy Share Image
When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage… — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
“No woman deserves to be treated as little more than your toy. If you feel she is nothing more than a cheap… — Melody Anne Copy Share Image
There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
