Common Decency Quotes

12 quotes by 9 authors

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency. — Paul Rusesabagina
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not… — Joe Klein
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me… — H. L. Mencken
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? — Thomas Sowell
â€¦there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the… — Albert Camus
Please â€” a little less love, and a little more common decency. — Kurt Vonnegut
Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried… — Francine Rivers
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances,… — H. L. Mencken
Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn… — H. L. Mencken
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less… — Kurt Vonnegut
School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal… — Henry Louis Mencken
Often with little power or sway on their own, nurses -- mostly women, historically -- have been a force of will and a sense of… — Barack Obama

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