Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
There are no points for civility or decency when it comes to prosecuting the campaign against Donald Trump. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. — Horace Copy Share Image
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
“But what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
“Decency: the inexplicable: the ground of all ethics. Things we do not do. We do not stare when the soul leaves the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Is he a scumbag in training?” Richard glanced at the gunman. “At least have the decency to hold the gun properly, you… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things…It is American belief in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." “Sorry,” I admitted. “I’ve been going through a bit of… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“Decency" is a very old-fashioned word that conjures up a standard of behavior that has largely disappeared from the world.” — Inc Amazon Digital Services Copy Share Image
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to… — Don King Copy Share Image
I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before… — Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham Copy Share Image
“Do you have no sense of decency?" He pauses, seems to think about this, then turns and walks out the door.” — Carolyn Crane Copy Share Image
“Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
