Quotes About Decency

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Girls, if a guys taken please don't mess with him, we're not trying to increase the population of cheaters here.

Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.

Never, ever lie, unless it's to spare someone's feelings or to weasel out of something you really don't want to do, but only if not doing that something will not result in bodily or even psychic harm to another human being, unless that human being is exceptionally mean in which case minor psychic harm is permissible"—my

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Guys should never hit girls, take advantage of them, or just say they love them to get in their pants. Respect the girl.

First rule of cleavage: it's not how low you go, but where and when you show.

Warren Buffett advised that before you take any morally questionable action, you should ask yourself if you would want your mother to read about it in the newspaper.

She was not a person who had any right to decency or kindness, she was not a person to aspire to be. She was cruel, and she was evil in many ways. She took what she wanted from anyone, she was nasty, vindictive and she never threw me a kind word.

An open heart didn't mean every man for himself. It meant doing what was best for the greater good. It meant doing in your heart what you knew to be the right thing to do, even if, maybe especially if, it also meant saying good-bye.

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.

You know what? I really resent the idea that the only reason someone might be good or moral is because they're religious. I do what I do," Anne said, biting off each word, "without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require heaven or hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently, thank you very much.

Never read anything that you wouldn't want to read out loud - - to your mother.

The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies

Never trust a man who hollers at the help

Now for the first time he realized how important it had been not to admit any alternative to the hard, decent, orthodox choice which need not be regarded as a choice at all; how important not to be different.

Y tendremos que considerarnos afortunados si tenemos cerca a amigos o seres queridos: querrá decir que hemos sido personas lo bastante decentes como para mantener tales relaciones con el resto de la humanidad. Los que nos rodean no pueden curar nuestra enfermedad o salvarnos de la muerte, pero pueden acompañarnos durante una parte del camino, reconfortándonos antes de que lleguemos allí.

It was one of life's rules – Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff –

If you want to be happier, if you want to live in a world that may be thick with problems but is at least a sunnier place where people are more decent to one another and more willing to cooperate and show kindness, just turn off the tube.