Quotes About Decency

Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, they are capable of changing.

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

Conservatism should not be a party but the normal attitude of every decent man.

In a perfect penal code, vulgarity would be punished with the death penalty.

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics. Each man has inside him a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

El cultivo de lo superfluo y de lo que no supone beneficio puede de todos modos ayudarnos a resistir, a mantener viva la esperanza, a entrever el rayo de la luz que nos permitirá recorrer un camino decoroso.

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

Stay far hence, far hence, you prudes!

Our gentlemen visitors ain't allowed no more than a smile and a squeeze in the public rooms, for I won't 'ave Sodom and Gomorrah under my roof. I always tell my girls, I tell them, 'Ladies, just show the boys enough to give them a proper 'int of what they're in for. And close your door be'ind you when you're entertaining, for a gentleman is easily embarrassed.

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

His kind of courage was boundless, though, and he would not have turned away a person in need, whether a star performer or a simple laborer or a child such as Theo with no skills at all. It was not about the circus or family connections, but human decency. Herr

I had assumed Herr Neuhoff had taken me in only to help the show, and perhaps as a favor to an old family friend. His kind of courage was boundless, though, and he would not have turned away a person in need, whether a star performer or a simple laborer or a child such as Theo with no skills at all. It was not about the circus or family connections, but human decency.

Lobby for Decency Declares Brain an Erogenous Zone, Demands Mandatory Hatting.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Heartfelt conviction is not, alas, a guarantee of moral decency.

Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward just to make the societies less fragile, which means developing their economies.

A refusal to countenance racially based differences in behavior is a manifestation of human decency. A refusal to countenance culturally based differences in behavior would be a manifestation of blinkered denial of the obvious.

The Doctor: I just don't like nastiness, and people getting away with it. Churchwell: That sounds a rather, if you forgive me, innocent view. The Doctor: That's as may be, but I'm sticking to it.

The problem, as it was in the 1930s, is that decent people refuse to believe that such far-fetched belligerence is planned, even when they see it in cold print.