Quotes About Decency

It is how decent, civilized people behave, Captain Ransom. Though I suppose that to someone of your level of moral fortitude, it must seem remarkable.

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.

What's the point in being nice if everyones I straight asssshole?

Bi... if you're tired of being the other woman, you should try keeping your legs closed.

Females that think being the other woman is ok...dummies.

Never been interested in being the other woman.....not my speed.

Just because I'm single doesn't mean you need to hit on me.

Something that is evil can never be called good, and something that is good can never be called evil.

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing.

How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

Cheaters never prosper. (Because they suck.)

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

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Every wife should have a husband like Norman, revere a husband like Norman instead of battering on his decency with her low-minded delights.

the greatest of penalties is being ruled by a worse man if one is not willing to rule oneself. It is because they fear this, in my view, that decent men rule, when they do rule; and at that time they proceed to enter on rule, not as though they were going to something good, or as though they were going to be well off in it; but they enter on it as a necessity and because they have no one better than or like themselves to whom to turn it over.

But our greatest treasure, hope, remains. It is a sturdy little motor within, purring, ticking, driving us on when reason would suggest surrender. It is both the most pathetic and noblest thing about us, the most absurd and the most admirable quality we possess, for as long as we have hope, we also have the capacity for love, for caring, for decency.

The Iraqi and Afghan wars have not 'ended.' Only America's involvement has 'ended.' … When a country leaves a war before achieving victory it is not called leaving. It is called defeat. … When the decent leave, the indecent win.

Suffering is no guarantee of empathy and the decent behavior it engenders. When people emerge from pain and oppression, they have two options: they can use their anger over their suffering to legitimize their oppression of others; or they can use the memory of their pain to empathize with others. Suffering ennobles only those who want to be ennobled by it.

Good societies can survive people doing immoral things. But a good society can not survive if it calls immoral things moral.

In my view, both opinions are valid. But I side with the minority. It is extremely difficult to be decent when living among indecent people. Few people have the moral courage to reject their environment.

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy, dubious as its moral underpinning might be

They have neither the skills nor the interest to become arbiters of truth and decency for society as a whole. How could they be expected to solve the problem that even the organs of democracy couldn't?

I don't need to use bad language as a means of earning or for entertainment.