Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency. — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph N. Welch Copy Share Image
Politics are not my concern… They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Tristan flexed his jaw. “How is it that you seem to have no sense of decency when it comes to your personal… — Chelsea Fine 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
“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
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
If you look at the history of Obama, with the crimes he's committed, in office, publicly, and gotten by with that, you… — Lyndon LaRouche 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt 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
In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Im single so my only sense of decency has any say about where you leave your dirty clothes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Traditionally, when a man’s body is forcibly removed from the waist down by a cannonball, they have the decency to perish in… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
“It never seems to occur to such "criminals" that to behave with decency to another human being might also be "gratuitous.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency. — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
