Decency Quotes

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassi...

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend yo...

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of p...

Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake p...

I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces,And the gold cup...

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat ...

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if t...

Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a p...

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as...

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned....

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assum...

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that dece...

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not accord...

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man...

The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those ac...

I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can c...

Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria:1) They respect human beings as ind...