Quotes About Decency

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One's religion, political persuasion, family, financial and social status, or vocation does not hamper the common thread of personal decency running through most of humankind.

In America, where hostility to big government is central to the national character, the case for statism must be made in terms of "pragmatism" and decency. In other words, our fascism must be nice and for your own good.

Behind every act of altruism, heroism, and human decency you'll find either selfishness or stupidity.

Doc, God help me for saying it—if you repeat this I'll totally deny it—but some sperm deserve to be drowned before they get a chance to swim.

A decent society will be one in which enemies do not allow their rancour or animosity to prevent them from coming to one another's assistance when they need help.

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

No matter how noble the objective of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion - it is an evil government.

Formerly they had been the bitterest foes, but behold, they were now united against their common enemies—common decency and common sense!

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

nothing was useful which was not honest.

Rarely use [sex] but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.

Conduct is more convincing than language,

When people are decent, things work out for everybody," my father instructs us. "That's been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it, too.… If you can work a thing out so that everybody profits, that's the ideal business.

Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.

Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

Decent people must refuse to back Corbyn and his candidates.

I'm very cognizant of the image that's being put out there and the way in which people perceive me. I'm honored and flattered that they see me as being a decent human being. I try my best to be a decent human being, but I fall short of the mark like we all do on a regular basis.

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.