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Quotes About Decency

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
~ Terence McKenna
Godliness is the root of cleanliness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.
~ Nina Turner
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot force a person to show you respect, but you can refuse to be disrespected.
~ Unknown
Being understanding and nice to people who are obviously fake to you doesnt mean you fake like them, it means youre just a better person..
~ Unknown
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.
~ Malcolm Forbes
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
~ Malcolm Forbes
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.
~ Malcolm Forbes
As for all the little people who call themselves Marquis de Cambremerde or de Gotoblazes, there is no difference between them and the humblest rookie in your regiment. Whether you go and do wee-wee at the Countess Cack's or cack at the Baroness Wee-wee's, it's exactly the same, you will have compromised your reputation and have used a shitty rag instead of toilet paper. Which is unsavoury.
~ Marcel Proust
I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us.
~ John Milton
Virtue signaling' is a phrase the dim and bigoted use when they want to discount other people expressing the idea that it would be nice if we could all be essentially and fundamentally decent to each other.
~ John Scalzi
He decided he'd rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who'd tear out someone's liver to get into an escape pod.
~ John Scalzi
Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent.
~ John Steinbeck
Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop.
~ John Steinbeck
You can do more good by being good than any other way.
~ John Wooden
Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal.
~ John Wooden
As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
~ Tammy Bruce
Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
~ Michael D. Higgins
Human beings are rat-cunning and will happily kill you twice over for a hot meal. That's what long observation has taught me. On the other hand, with a full belly, and a good harvest in the barn, and a fire in the hearth, there's nothing so charming, so generous, no one more decent than a well-fed man. But
~ Unknown
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
His sister was a lesbian, but that didn't make him decent.
~ Marcy Dermansky
A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being who aspires to be of service in an indecent, inhumane time.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
~ A.A. Milne