Quotes About Decency

You hear things about certain people. When you hear someone was mean to a limo driver or a wardrobe lady, or someone was rotten to a fan, somewhere in your brain it gets stuck.

We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky proposition. In my life, I try to leave the people I encounter with the feeling that they have been respected and treated with warmth and appreciation.

For a fleeting instant, in the sad curve of his shoulders, I saw what Comonot could not: the core of decency; the weight he had carried so long; the endless struggle to do right in the wake of this irreversible wrong; the grieving husband and frightened father; the author of all those love songs. For the first time, I understood.

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. There are black men and white men and yellow men and red men, but nothing counts except whether they're honest men or dishonest men.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

There's never any issues with Colby 'Chaos' Covington. I always do the right things.

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

The more Mr. Trump traduces the old established lines of decency, the more he affirms his supporters' most shameless ideological instincts.

It is common knowledge that social media today is fertile ground for trampling all over the decency of language. This is done not just by members of your party and your supporters but also those from the opposition. And their numbers are increasing every day.

Since the days of Harry Truman, Democrats have wanted universal health coverage, believing that if other industrialized countries can achieve it, surely the United States can. For Democrats, universal coverage speaks to America's sense of decency and compassion. Democrats also believe that it will lead to a healthier and more productive country.

Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.

The total effect of Orwell's work is an effect of paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror; a man committed to decency who actualised a distinctive squalor.

Are you decent? Richards asked. Yes! she stormed. isn't that why you picked on me? Because I was defenseless and... decent?... If you're so decent, how come you have six thousand New Dollars to buy this fancy car while my little girls dies of flu?

Abhor that which is evil; Cleave to that which is good.

Evil is the man who has known honor and discarded it.

Don't side with assholes," she said. Her voice was very not chill.

Doing the right thing even if there's nothing in it for you is the difference between civilisation and the cesspit we're in today.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.