Quotes About Decency

THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak!

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

I'll never be intimidated by somebody, and I will treat you will respect as long as I'm treated with respect.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.

I think people need to be treated with respect, and that's what we've demanded from everyone.

The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do good - for our health, our families, and the world. That is why so many physicians dismiss the idea that a patient's race can, and often should, be used as a tool for better diagnoses and treatment.

My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians.

Do what is right, not what is important.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor STOP calling yourself a man..at least have the decency to admit that you're a boy. You don't know what manhood is.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side.

I have no obligation to deal with slime.

la conveniencia de las actitudes esquiva los cuerpos, la decencia de las palabras blanquea los discursos

Yang paling suci dihormati karen kebajikannya yang besar.

Forget love. Try good manners.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?

Those whodisrespect youwith their mouthdon't deserveyour ear.

And so that generation was deprived of the one element that is essential to the operation of a free society—the ability to assume, in the absence of good proof to the contrary, that men in public life are generally decent, honorable, and loyal. Because that element was lacking, the wisest man could be reasonable with only part of his mind; a certain area had to be given over to emotions which were all the more mad and overpowering because he shared them with everyone else.

So that's your man? The 'talent' you manage?' 'He had a bad night.' Coolman said tightly. Merry cackled. 'A bad night? The dude's a total homophobe! Also a bigot!' 'There's a culture gap, that's all.' 'No, it's a decency gap, Bob! Your client's a flaming a-hole! What's the matter with you? I'm so disappointed.' Coolman had received other morality lectures, though never from a professional criminal.

Eventually she came to believe that her condition was one that couldn't be treated medically; she was doomed to demand more decency and consideration from her fellow humans than they demanded of themselves.