Quotes About Decency

These 'Supernatural' conventions are such a great time. The fan base is like none other, and I'm sure I'll never experience a fan base that support is the same with - their kind of unbridled decency towards the actors makes me not have to worry about going into the crowd.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

If you want to kill someone, have enough respect for my time to make it someone, anyone, other than the most gobsmackingly obvious person in the world. One

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

What makes a good man?

She just didn't think it decent to live in a place where there were no coffee shops to have breakfast in when she woke up

she could not be surprised, let alone outraged, by anything the jihadists did. This, she reckoned, must be the story of all radical groups, be they Taliban, Shining Path, or National Socialist. Once they had left common notions of decency in the dust—once they had abandoned all sense of proportionality—then it turned into a sort of competition to see who could outdo all the rest in that. Beyond there it was all comedy, if only you could turn a blind eye to the consequences.

Because he believed in honesty and integrity, my father believed that others did as well. He believed in human decency and assumed others were just like him. He believed that most people, when given the choice, would do what was right, even when it was hard, and he believed that good almost always triumphed over evil. He wasn't naive, though.

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

I'm not a nasty person.

You're a good man, Vittorio. No matter what, you're a good man.

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

jealousies and hatreds; there was no loyalty or decency anywhere about it, there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar. And worse than there being no decency, there was not even any honesty. The reason for that? Who could say? It must have been old Durham in the beginning; it was a heritage which the self-made merchant had left to his son, along with his millions.

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.