Quotes About Decency

The most urgent task I have is to help those British citizens who came from the Caribbean, the so-called Windrush generation, and make sure they are all treated with the decency and the fairness they deserve.

America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

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

You don't have to like a man to respect him.

While most humans are wired to be reasonably decent, a few are wired to be utter shits -- and they do tend to tip the balance.

comportamiento de un héroe hay casi siempre algo ciego, irracional, instintivo, algo que está en su naturaleza y a lo que no puede escapar. Además, se puede ser una persona decente durante toda una vida, pero no se puede ser sublime sin interrupción, y por eso el héroe sólo lo es excepcionalmente, en un momento o, a lo sumo, en una temporada de locura o inspiración.

The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent consent is to make use of all the violence permitted in love. To read it in the eyes, to see it in the ways in spite of the mouth's denial, that is the art of he who knows how to love. If he then completes his happiness, he is not brutal, he is decent. He does not insult chasteness; he respects it; he serves it.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

No, no. I draw the line there. Anything that's going to show an outline of my manhood is not on.

Trump will never, ever do the right or decent thing, and his consultants certainly won't. He will make outrageous, unsupported claims.

Deep down, the boringly pragmatic Liberal Party has a sunnier view of human nature than the passionately idealistic Labor Party because we are prepared to put more trust in the common sense and decency of our fellow Australians.

It was clear Jackson was the sort of young man who considers himself rather smarter than he is, and who is naturally cruel but thinks himself a decent fellow.

while the officers in command of the regiments that must be moved are tolerably venal men, and we have ample funds at hand. Yet at the same time certain forms must still be observed: there must be persuasion, a gentle violence, before they can decently fall.

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

Instead of reacting aggressively when we're provoked, endlessly perpetuating the cycle of pain, we trust that we can engage with others from a place of curiosity and caring and in that way contact their innate decency and wisdom.

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

The boys who do have a moral compass, and a conscience, will turn out to be decent people and good men one day. They've learned a hell of a lesson here, but in the end, they're finding their way to do the right thing.

supremely noble act in a world more and more devoid of anything remotely virtuous.

We were destroying any sense of civility and decency the four of us still had. We were no longer brothers and sisters. We were members of a gang.