Quotes About Decency

There may be no God, but there's decency and - and there's truth and trying to stay there, I mean to stay in it, in its sort of light, and trying to do a good thing and to hold onto what you know to be a good thing even if it seems stupid when you come to do it.

The best way ah knew tae strike a chord without compromising too much tae the sickening hypocrisy, perversely peddled as decency, which fills the room, is tae stick tae the clichés.

Quizá me haya acostumbrado tanto a las mentiras, que la verdad me suena indecentemente falsa. Pero bueno.

it seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

la mojigatería no es más que la cara opuesta de la lascivia.

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.

Esto te demuestra, Maurice, que la decencia sucumbe rápidamente ante la codicia.

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. Also, I don't like guys who show off. When will guys realize that girls hate showoffs!

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

When I am a good guy on TV, my character tends to be almost identical to how I am as a real person. However, as a bad guy, I get to be the opposite. I get to be a jerk. I get to talk trash, I get to say all the things that I'm thinking but have to restrain myself from saying out of respect or decency.

We're so obsessed with, 'Is Michael Cohen going to jail or not? Is Rod Rosenstein going to be fired? What did Trump tweet today? Did he call the press an enemy of the state?' We're so focused on that, we're missing just the tremendous damage Trump is doing to the decency and moral character of this country.

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig.

Creo que Peeta dio con la tecla al comentar que nos destruyéramos entre nosotros para dejar que otra especie más decente ocupara nuestro lugar. Porque algo falla estrepitosamente en unas criaturas capaces de sacrificar a sus hijos para zanjar sus diferencias. Da igual cómo se justifique.