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A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.
— Heather Graham
There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.
— Samuel R. Delany
Do you have no sense of decency?He pauses, seems to think about this, then turns and walks out the door. — Carolyn Crane
Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. — Karen Marie Moning
He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason
— Sinclair Lewis
Do right simply because it is right.
— Alex Treacher
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.
— Sakyong Mipham
Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
— Alfred De Vigny
I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.
— Joshua Emmet
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
— Harold Macmillan
Regardfulness is the minimum expression of decency.
— Eraldo Banovac
Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.
— Chieko N. Okazaki
And die with decency.
— Thomas Otway
Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.
— Glenn Reynolds
He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.
— Joe Hill
Those dogs of the hajj go to Mecca to pray when they don't possess even the decency or generosity of spirit to pardon or forgive.
— Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
- How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose?- I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for? — Nikolai Gogol
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
— Thomas Sowell
Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig.
— Suzanne Collins
Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.
— Jackie Mason
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
— Henrik Ibsen
So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.
— Maggie Stiefvater
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
— Boris Yeltsin
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
— William Faulkner
Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her.
— W.C. Fields
There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.
— K.J. Parker
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
— Thomas Hardy
Youth and beauty fade. Human decency doesn't.
— Colleen Hoover
Decency" is a very old-fashioned word that conjures up a standard of behavior that has largely disappeared from the world.
— Amazon Digital Services
Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
— Terence McKenna
She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him want to try.
— Thea Harrison
Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.
— Dodie Smith
I'm here," I continued, "to guide you into the light of truth, decency and perhaps pants.
— Paul Rudnick
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalismand is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould
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.
— Richard Llewellyn
Doubt makes a man decent.
— Harry Crews
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
— Michael Shermer
Pursue decency in all dealings with your fellow man and woman. Simply put? Don't be an asshole.
— Nick Offerman
You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.
— Nenia Campbell
Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers
— Kiran Bedi
Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
— Jack Kerouac
I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency,
— Carl Panzram
Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.
— Ariel Lawhon
But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.
— Lynn Samuels
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
— George Bernard Shaw
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
— James L. Brooks
Alone knows what times we are living in when undisguised selfishness stifles all feelings of conscience, duty, or even ordinary decency.
— Robert K. Massie
Honor is decency without vanity.
— Arthur Koestler
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
— Christopher Hitchens
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
— Jeannette Rankin
The perfumes of lords and ladies tickled at my nose: lavender and orange oil. On the road, shit has the decency to stink.
— Mark Lawrence
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
— Tennessee Williams
Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.
— Michel De Montaigne
Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!
— Terry Pratchett
All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.
— Whitney Otto
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
People are shit. The day you stop expecting decency from them is the day you'll free yourself from getting hurt.
— L. H. Cosway
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
— Louisa May Alcott
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
— Margaret Cavendish
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
The lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).
— Saul Bellow
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
— Tiger Woods
Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one.
— Khaled Hosseini
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
— Jean De La Bruyere
