Decency Quotes

286 quotes by 251 authors

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba — Khaled Hosseini
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is… — Napoleon Bonaparte
At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you… — Kate DiCamillo
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency.… — John Kennedy Toole
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when… — Robert Kennedy
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. — Kurt Vonnegut
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodnessâ€”the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity,… — Orson Scott Card
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
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change… — Spencer W. Kimball
It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing… — Edith Wharton
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance… — Mary Doria Russell
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould
Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind me of that… — Eoin Colfer
People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who… — Philip Roth
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death. — Alice Hoffman
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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