“She said, 'Goodbye, Reuben, a love for decency does not abide in you.' There is your divorced woman talking about decency. I… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am… — Erica Tazel Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
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 attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“But where the ideas of morality and decency alter from one age to another, and where vicious manners are described, without being… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
If I have a strong dislike for something, obviously that garners an equal amount of derision, towards me from the audience. And… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“During the whole of the fucking Middle Ages, the place where they had it off most of all was the cemeteries!...people don't… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It's not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters "punch that guy in the face." I… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than… — David Brin Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card 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
I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have… — Fritz Stern Copy Share Image
“And seriously, if we as a society can’t even bother to treat a simple, unassuming, stunningly gentle and demonstrably sentient creature like… — Propagandhi Copy Share Image
There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty- four hours. But certain men, either from the love… — Philipp Melanchthon 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 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
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
“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave… — Isabel Allende 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
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