Quotes About Decency

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.

Pure is honourable.

Honourable is right.

Don´t be a dick

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

Treat people magnanimously if you can," he said, "It'll make you feel better. Expect nothing and you won't be disappointed. Do the decent thing if you can, but for its own sake.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than we ever know. The real world doesn't roil with as many crazed artists, psychotic generals, dyspeptic writers, maniacal statesmen, insatiable tycoons, or mad scientists as you see in dramas.

My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen

It was a tough break. Parry was innocent. On top of that he was a decent sort of guy who never bothered people and wanted to lead a quiet life. But there was too much on the other side and on his side of it there was practically nothing. The judge handed him a life sentence and he was taken to San Quentin.

being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations

Let us emphasize (we really shouldn't have to) that Rousseau's effusions on the fundamental decency of human nature and lost ages of freedom and equality were in no sense themselves responsible for the French Revolution.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

But where the ideas of morality and decency alter from one age to another, and where vicious manners are described, without being marked with the proper character of blame and disapprobation, this must be allowed to disfigure the poem, and to be a real deformity. I cannot, nor is it proper I should, enter into such sentiments; and however I may excuse the poet, on account of the manners of age, I can never relish the composition.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

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

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.