Decency Quotes

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To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was… — Virginia Woolf
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the… — Charles Grandison Finney
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure… — Robert A. Heinlein
Please â€” a little less love, and a little more common decency. — Kurt Vonnegut
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. — Christopher Hitchens
If you think youâ€™re the only person for whom life is painful, youâ€™re wrong. And if you donâ€™t mind letting yourself die like a dog,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that… — John Kennedy Toole
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for… — Roger Lowenstein
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 hiding behind words,… — Armistead Maupin
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how… — Yann Martel
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching… — George Monbiot
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes… — William Faulkner
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir… — David Eddings
I am a Stormdancer! Mere metal is nothing compared with the power of a storm." Kade made his voice boom and spread his arms wide.… — Maria V. Snyder
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency! — George Bernard Shaw
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. — Louisa May Alcott
If you can think of times in your life that youâ€™ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they… — David Foster Wallace
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every… — John Pilger
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his… — Theodore Roosevelt
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocriticalâ€”as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency canâ€™t exist. — T.H. White

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