Decency Quotes

286 quotes by 251 authors

You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. Â In scarcity, people will tend to steal. Â If… — Jacque Fresco
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've… — Michael King
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings… — Carol Tavris
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking… — Harvey Korman
I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency, — Carl Panzram
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do… — Dennis McKinsey
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found… — Willa Cather
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
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. — John Quinton
That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else --… — Joseph Epstein
If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are. — Dorothy Parker
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it… — Clifford Geertz
...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding… — Barack Obama
Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen… — Mae West
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as… — Mary McAleese
Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence — George Bernard Shaw
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world,… — Isaac Asimov
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life. — Scott Jurek
A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities to his family… — Stephen A. Smith

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