Quotes About Decency

Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

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

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

That's a huge part foul man; that's just not cool.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Always take the high road.

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

Life without decency is unbearable.

Beauty without a character is a waste.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.