Quotes About Decency

parents are the most important influences on children, and that the best way to curb misbehavior is to insist on standards of decency. If we cannot persuade our children that they have the capacity to manage their lives and that the world is worth living in—and then work to create a world in which this is true—medical treatments will expand endlessly but will not be able to help us.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

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

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

His illusions about American decency had not survived the reading of American history.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

OK, so she ran off with a boy young enough to be her waist measurement. But at least she had the decency to do the dirty quietly and not hang around long enough to conduct a masterclass on familial trauma courtesy of the local rag, without even bothering to change the names.

Si, se sufre de a ratos, pero es la única salida decente.

But does a decent man make promises just to please a woman? Isn't it more honest to refuse to?" "I don't like that sort of honesty. It's not honesty, it's lack of steadiness.

Decent people live around here and that's how we're going to live. You're Americans now. He had his Chivas Regal bottle on his knee.

I would not say I was a nonbeliever; rather, that I gave little if any thought to celestial concerns. It did not seem to me that God, whoever he was, would be the sort of god to take an interest in the minutiae of human affairs, or that this fact released us from the duty to go about our lives in a spirit of decency to others.

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

All I can say is...God is Great! And All Beliefs that Teach People to Be Good and Decent to Each Other. "- Strong: Philosophies by Kailin Gow

To do liturgy decently in the light of the concerns Paul expressed in 1 Corinthians means that liturgy must be theologically grounded and communally sensitive.

I wanted to do something decent at last, and I wanted to be rewarded for my decency. p 284

Quidquid est enim quod deceat, id tum apparet cum antegressa est honestas.

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim ,and now decency and good behavior weary me.

Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

That girl never did have the decency to be wrong an appropriate amount of the time.

Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

A good man, I don´t think I´ve ever known one of those before

Kindness isn't so difficult, when the object is worthy.

Wherever you go, madam, it will matter little what you carry. You will always carry your goodness.