Quotes About Decent

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

I think I am a moral man.

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother

Superheroes] aren't fascists. They are just ordinary, decent, super-powerful people who inhabit a world in which fascism is the only political possibility.

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

That's what any decent mind ought to do for its owner when she lets it off the leash - just go bounding away into the long grass and bring back a really profound thought, laying it at her feet all furry and palpitating. C'mon now. Hey los'!

Analyses of moral disengagement mechanisms usually draw heavily on examples from military and political violence. This tends to convey the impression that selective disengagement of self-sanctions occurs only under extraordinary circumstances. The truth is quite the contrary. Such mechanisms operate in everyday situations in which decent people routinely perform activities having injurious human effects, to further their own interests or for profit.

Saturday's goal was swordsmanship decent enough to get her hired on the first caravan out of this magic-drenched insanity.

All your decent work is slavery, didn't you say so yourself, that's what decent work is. Yep, and that's what I found out.

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude.

You can't tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as you have it in your power to turn it into a ghastly and prolonged struggle; the victim must squirm like a worm in your fingers, not for ten minutes, but for ten months. Pfui! I don't like the law. It was not I, but a great philosopher, who said that the law is an ass.

If you're so sure violence is inferior technique, you should have seen that exhibition; it was wonderful. They say it works sometimes, but even if it does, how could you depend on anything you got that way? Not to mention that after you had done it a few times any decent garbage can would be ashamed to have you found in it.

Teddy found himself thinking what a decent human being his father had been, the best of all the family really. The grief caught him unawares.

They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman will wear his suit: he will not let ruffians or circumstance tear it off him in the public gaze; he will discard it when, and only when, he wills to do so, and this will invariably be when he is entirely alone. It is, as I say, a matter of 'dignity'.

The door cracked open. Decent? Rafe asked. Yep Damn. He pushed it open. If you're hoping to see something, the trick is to not knock first. That would be wrong, he said as he walked in. The trick is to hope you say 'no, but come in anyway.' Ah.

Yeah yeah, h said. I waited. She was decent. Although technically, she's still naked. You're sch a perv, she turned on to me. Okay, kitty. Lead on. We'll try to keep up. Yeah,good luck with that, Rafe said. If she runs, we're history.