Quotes About Decency

You hear a lot of songs that are about people cheating or about infidelity. I haven't really heard one before about connecting with the noble part of yourself. I know it sounds a little bit cheesy, but that's the real deal. There are a lot of people who are making a genuinely good, sweet decision on a daily basis.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life. You

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life.

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A poet without memory, said Marconi, is like a criminal and nearly undone by feelings of decency. A poet without memory is an oxymoron. Because the poet is the memory of the language.

It is a peculiar irony that in the modern—and "postmodern"—world, Christianity has come to be regarded as narrow and moralistic. Originally, it was quite the reverse: figures such as Jesus and Paul were widely regarded as rebels, antinomians, disturbers of decency.)

Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.

What she likes and doesn't, when she isn't lying the lazy lie of decency.

All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?! You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness! Your judgement is shit! Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai.

At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

Era obvio que no se iba a quedar, y si de pura suerte se quedaba iba a acabar odiándome. Te digo que los tipos decentes no me van. Les traigo mala suerte.

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy…

Don't they appreciate how hard it is, staying decent, keeping your head on straight when so much is happening to you and your life is so full and eventfull?

Contrary to what you may think, the legal system was neither founded upon nor designed to reflect the common decency found in normal human relationships. It primarily works like the rules for a lunatic asylum. It tries to govern people driven insane by the inflated idea of their own worth.

It isn't kindness to give a thirsty man water," she said. "It is human decency.

but I have clawed back some shreds of decency and dignity and I will not have them taken from me again.

You get to thinking that maybe the diving line shouldn't be animals and people but good and bad.

Do not be devilish.