Quotes About Decency

It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?

B?trâneÈ›ea este o stare indecent? care trebuie oprit? la timp.

If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me more about how to be a decent person living in a world that's filled with chaos.'

Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.

Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to protect it.

I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.

When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.

It is supposed to be in very bad taste to discuss a person behind his back; and to discuss a dead person behind his back is most unfair, for he cannot even retaliate.

Ju? i inne rakiety lata? zacz??y, jeden tylko Ba?bu?a zachowa? przyzwoito?? i konwencjonalnie r?n?? no?em.

She carried herself with the thought that she was a decent person and she often wondered why the men in her life were not decent too

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

no renuncies a ser libre, decente, comunitario, dócil ante dios.

Righteous people are those who do what is right.

But unfortunately, decent people are usually slow to act and ignore dangers until a crisis erupts. They are sluggish and willing to abide with peace without honor, but their own inaction causes them to lose both.

Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled.   On

Come, Scarlett, you are no child, no schoolgirl to put me off with foolish excuses about decency and so forth. Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation.

Be respectful to your peers and yourself, of course. Don't be a jerk. But at the same time don't settle for anything less than yourself.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.

Who knows, maybe those two rogue leaders, Gandhi and Jesus, were right—a loving response changes the people who would beat the shit out of you, including yourself, of course. Their way, of the heart, makes everything bigger. Decency and goodness are subversively folded into the craziness, like caramel ribbons into ice cream. Otherwise, it's about me, and my bile ducts, and how unique I am and how I've suffered. And that is what hell is like.