In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
“[...]the best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering… — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly. — Tyrus Copy Share Image
Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat? — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being. — Norman Vincent Peale 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
“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
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which… — John Milton 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
Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“The most spiritual people I’ve ever met were not “givers” they were communicators. You don’t give people crumbs. You give them the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
“How dare you, I repeat, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose?” — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“A girl in the buff, does not invite a man to the buff! Decency is a lifestyle.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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