Quotes About Decency

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

The movie Waterloo Bridge (1940), starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor, was a stern defence of British decency and values.

As you correctly observed, this isn't a fairy tale, it's life. Lousy and evil. And so, damn it all, let's live it decently and well. Let's keep the amount of harm done to others to the absolute minimum.

Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.

Those who follow a code are often respected and held in high esteem

Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.

People feel at home with low moral standards. It is scruples that put them off.

I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.

That's why I liked the Presbyterian church; we believed in doing things decently and in order. When you went to church, you knew exactly what you were going to get. We didn't want to be surprised or entertained. And, Lord knows, we didn't want anything changed.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

I knew the shirt-swapping business in general was getting out of hand when opponents would ask me for my shirt while we were still mid-match. Those are the wrong priorities.

There should be respect and privacy for any dead person.

The Lantos Human Rights Prize is intended to serve as a beacon of hope, justice and human decency in a world too often covered in a shroud of darkness.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

No one has the right to dirty someone's personal space in any which way.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

I would never disrespect anyone.

There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.

Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

But I know you'd have done what you did for anyone. That's your code, isn't it? And I always wanted something particular from you, something you wouldn't give anyone else. Funny, I've started to appreciate people who're decent to everyone, but it's too late for that, too, isn't it?

alone knows what times we are living in when undisguised selfishness stifles all feelings of conscience, duty, or even ordinary decency.

A meaningful life is made up of a series of daily acts of decency and kindness, which, ironically, add up to something truly great over the course of a lifetime.

Your personal leadership requires—no, demands—that you stop being a cyber-zombie relentlessly attracted to digital devices and restructure your life to model mastery, exemplify decency and relinquish the self-centeredness that keeps good people limited.