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Quotes About Decency

I ain't got no Visa, I ain't got no Red American Express, We can't go nowhere exotic, It don't matter 'cause I'm decent and Loyal.
~ Genereux Philip
Stop talking filthy things, It doesn't help anyone.
~ Satish David
If you want to know a person's true character, observe how he treats those who don't matter.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
~ E. B. White
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
~ Samuel Johnson
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
~ Mark Twain
Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.
~ Allen Drury
Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.
~ Beth Ditto
Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly.
~ Jay Lake
The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.
~ Jeff Cooper
Was it possible yet to be poor and live decently? Were young men still sent to die in wars made by old men?
~ Elizabeth Knox
and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
You can't turn your back on people who need your help. It's a matter of decency.
~ Allan Zullo
You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." "Sorry," I admitted. "I've been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it's almost over.
~ Ally Carter
Así comprendí que las jaulas no siempre estaban fuera, en las amenazas y los chantajes de las personas que tenían el poder. También podían estar dentro, incrustadas en el cuerpo, en el espíritu de todas las mujeres perdidas que asumían mansamente un destino que no habían elegido, sólo porque otros habían decidido que lo que más les convenía era volverse decentes. Pues
~ Almudena Grandes
Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible restraint over common decency.
~ Amelie Nothomb
The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, it's amazing not just that you don't get robbed everywhere - it's amazing you don't get eaten.
~ Geoff Dyer
I always fought against vulgarity, double meaning dialogues and wearing la'dies' clothes.
~ Asrani
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.
~ Jerry Kramer
We don't need to be politically correct. We need to be morally right.
~ Jeanine Pirro
There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
~ Willem Dafoe
There is always a line that can't be crossed. Anything that is said or written from a place of hate will never be acceptable behavior at Barstool.
~ Dave Portnoy