Decency Quotes
286 quotes by 251 authors
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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
— Aeschylus
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness,…
— Danny Boyle
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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
— James L. Brooks
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of…
— Pablo Casals
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and…
— Carl Sagan
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The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to…
— George Meany
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We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any…
— George S. Patton
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Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.
— Robert Breault
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
— Samuel Johnson
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Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your…
— Ted Koppel
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Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.
— Jackie Mason
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
— Agnes Repplier
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Human rights without responsibility, without a sense of decency, a sense of compassion, is not good enough for a society to flourish... We need to…
— Tu Weiming
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you…
— William Faulkner
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It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible…
— Robert Solow
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