Quotes About Decency

Perverts don't perpetuate!

ViaÈ›a nu poate g?si motive care s? o susÈ›in?, nu poate fi o surs? de consideraÈ›ie decent? È™i reciproc?, decât dac? fiecare dintre noi este decis s?-i insufle aceste calit??i.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

Being fundamentally decent and honest and willing to put others before yourself - that's necessary for being an effective policymaker.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.

The thing, in general, about being a good person is just do the right thing as often as possible.

Even though I'm young, I really try to do the right thing.

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

Once your back's up against the wall and you've been beat down, you start looking at trying to do the right thing.

Usually translated as 'goodness' or 'virtue'

Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for $31,500. He seemed to answer to a deeply rooted, distinctly American mythology, in which decency and common sense triumphed over cosmopolitan guile, and in which an idealized past held firm against a rootless and too hurriedly changing present.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

Maybe, she thought, they have so much disdain for the Italians—our food, our music, our God-given happiness, our warmth—that they want, not to be loved but only to prove their own superiority. There must be decent ones among them, men like the soldier who'd warned her about the rapist. Surely there were thousands of young men who'd never wanted to be in Hitler's army. But it was the vulgar and violent ones who left an impression.

You cannot stand for moral decency and express outrage over the objectification of women if you are willing to give Trump a free pass.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them,

decency to call me and give me an update.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

Fitzgerald's] latter work represents essentially best qualities of chivalry and decency now too often lacking in the English themselves.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

As we go, we become more deeply committed to a life of purpose and meaning and personal decency as we come to feel a broader connection to the shared experience of humanity.

Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!

Eschew evil and it's machinations.

Do you know what the main thing is—the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency. And maybe kindness too. Today, you should know this, I rate decency more highly than kindness. Decency is the bread, kindness is the butter. Or the honey.