Quotes About Decency

My shows are basically about ethics.

Try to live by your own sense of right and wrong. Not in response to someone else's treatment of you.

Before saying anything, always think to yourself, "Since my life is not a porno, will this creep her out?"

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

This he understood: that association makes people stronger and brings out each person's best gifts, and gives a joy which is rarely to be had by keeping to oneself, the joy of realizing how many honest decent capable people there are for whom it is worth giving one's best (while living just for oneself very often the opposite happens, of seeing people's other side, the side which makes one keep one's hand always on the hilt of one's sword).

We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard-of doctrines, a time in which the elements of common decency are themselves attacked as indecent. Nothing quite like this has ever happened before. Although our civilization has passed through quite a few troughs of immorality, never before has vice held the high moral ground.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

But whose idea of decency? And decency for who? Speak up and tell us what decency is. Tell us how much better a decent dead man feels than an indecent live one.

The true foundations for those buildings are not brick and stone, but our Constitution, our rule of law, our traditions, our work ethic, our empathy, our pragmatism, and our basic decency. As I have seen over the years, when we cultivate these instincts, we soar. When we sow seeds of division, hatred, and small-mindedness, we falter.

The true foundations for those buildings are not brick and stone, but our Constitution, our rule of law, our traditions, our work ethic, our empathy, our pragmatism, and our basic decency. As I have seen over the years, when we cultivate these instincts, we soar. When we sow seeds of division, hatred, and small-mindedness, we falter. As a wave of anxiety sweeps our nation, as big challenges loom before us, I feel an urgency.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

I think virtually everyone wants to do good and be good and be decent to each other and pursue something that is valuable to them and meaningful.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

But privately Reine-Marie wondered. Wondered whether what people did in a crisis was, in fact, their real selves. Stripped of artifice and social training. It was easy enough to be decent when all was going your way. It was another matter to be decent when all hell was breaking loose.