Common decency Quote by Jay Lake Download Open image ““Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly.”” — Jay Lake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common decency Folly
“I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.” — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“But it must not be supposed that folly is as powerful as truth, just because it can, if it likes, shout louder and longer… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“To Mankind And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won after all.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, it is often the ostensibly innocuous more so than any notable provenance that leads to the irreparable consequential.” — Steve Sagarra Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to acquire knowledge. Common-sense is paramount. Sadly, it is not in every knowledgeable person’s shed.” — Muhammed Muazu Mukaddas Copy Share Image
“Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The fanged shadows boiled out behind them, howling for blood, their voices creaking with the sound of snapping bones. The fallen of Hethor's own… — Jay Lake Copy Share Image
Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the… — Jay Lake Copy Share Image
“We are not dead!" He could hear the smile, even in her answering yell. "Certainly we are. It is only that our bodies have… — Jay Lake Copy Share Image
“Just don’t ask questions.” Chillicothe mimed a pistol with the fingers of her left hand. “Some answers are permanent fatal errors.” — Jay Lake Copy Share Image
Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement… — Jay Lake Copy Share Image
“Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.” — Jay Lake Copy Share Image
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency. — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
“We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard-of doctrines, a time… — J Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“ONE OF the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“Against such a background one can easily imagine the shock that must have gripped readers of The Times of London, who turned to their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You might not get the apology you deserve. You might not get answers to explain the actions of others. You might not get truth… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“We would do well, as Orwell counselled, to see the traces of the dystopian around us, to find the ends of those threads and… — Darran Anderson Copy Share Image
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