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Quotes About Decency

I'm decent to everyone, Rowan pointed out. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a decent person.
~ Neal Shusterman
No, it's my rule," he told them. "It's called 'common decency.
~ Neal Shusterman
We're not all evil, the man says. Neither are we,, Jeevan responds.
~ Neal Shusterman
Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.
~ Charles Bukowski
Why can't you be decent to people? she asked. Fear, I said.
~ Charles Bukowski
It's like a code, you know, a code of courtesy…because if the poor aren't decent to one another nobody else is going to be.
~ Charles Bukowski
Why do people show up—if not out of decency, and tradition?
~ Chelsea Handler
There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.
~ Terry Eagleton
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
I've got a moral center.
~ Letitia James
When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.
~ Henry Rollins
It is not for me to enforce my morals on others.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals.
~ Nigel Hawthorne
I'll never go against my morals.
~ Leona Lewis
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
~ Aeschylus
I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!
~ Jordin Sparks
To feel pity, to be carried away by the pleasure of hearing a clever argument, to listen to the claims of decency are three things that are entirely against the interests of an imperial power.
~ Thucydides
Dobbins shrugged his shoulders. What's serious? I was a kid. This thing is, I believed in God and all that, but it wasn't the religious part that interested me. Just being nice to people, that's all. Being decent.
~ Tim O'Brien
Henry Dobbins made the washing motion with his hands. You're right, he said. All you can do is be nice. Treat them decent, you know?
~ Tim O'Brien
To live you gotta be hard, I know that. But nobody wants to be a deadset cunt. That's just not fucking decent.
~ Tim Winton
Here's why at the Jesus beds they can only talk about all the stupid shit they've done—because that's all they are now, all they're ever gonna be, a twitching bunch of memories and mistakes. Regrets. Jesus, Bit thinks. I should've had the decency to go when Julie did.
~ Tom Perrotta
Hitler's core—"The fact that a man is decent is no reason why we should not eliminate him.
~ Tom Reiss
I am alarmed by the violence that women do to one another: professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence. I am alarmed by the willingness of women to enslave other women. I am alarmed by a growing absence of decency on the killing floor of professional women's worlds.
~ Toni Morrison
I need to speak to Roisin," he said. Finn rubbed his jaw. "Then I suggest you get off my girl's lap. And put some clothes on, man. You're indecent.
~ Kersten Hamilton