Quotes About Decency

L'oscenità, concluse, non è estranea alla buona letteratura e l'arte vera del racconto, se pure passa il limite della decenza, non è mai scabrosa.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

The people who keep their lifestyle natural as much as possible to the decency level meet quite often in life a beautiful person.

Hrishikesh Mukherjee's cinema brims with wit, charm and an inherent decency.

if you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think?

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

Ich ? : Atheist, allerdings ! : Wie jeder anständige Mensch !

We lived a decent and beautiful life," the old man said. "Maybe it's our innocence that irritates those who hate us so much and makes them kill us and burn us and hang us. It was a magnificent life because we lived in peace with ourselves. But we were always in the minority.

Nothing is about honest disagreement; it is all about your interlocutor's lack of basic human decency.

Modesty is my best quality.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

I ran for Congress as a first-time candidate to fight to protect everyone with a pre-existing condition, to bring down the skyrocketing costs of healthcare and prescription drugs, to fight for clean drinking water, and to help restore civility and decency to our politics.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

You have to be a low-class scumbag to start calling a woman a name. If you're a man, you should never. You should be a gentleman.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

I just want to be a good man.

I'm a good man.

If you're a good person, that's all that really matters.

I'm a good person.

I'm a good person and a good guy.

I want to be a good person.

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

It is my fate to have to be the first decent human being. I have a terrible fear that I shall one day be pronounced holy.

Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.