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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

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. — Robert Breault

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health. — Samuel R. Delany

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency — Dr. Seuss

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar.
"Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. — Karen Marie Moning

Do right simply because it is right. — Alex Treacher

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. — John McCain

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

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. — Alphonso Jackson

There's always a little decency in the worst places ... and always a little secret selfishness in the best. — Joe Hill

Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time. — Gary Hopkins

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

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us. — Jandy Nelson

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

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell

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

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead. — Doug MacLeod

When approaching me in public, do not be rude. Say please. Introduce yourself. Have manners. Be considerate. Otherwise you'll be disappointed. — CM Punk

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

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency. — Paul Rusesabagina

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. — Horace

that there's some meaning, some willfulness to life. Fairness. Basic decency. Good things happen — Nicola Yoon

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. — William Faulkner

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency. — K.J. Parker

It's called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should. — Courtney Milan

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's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them! — Moliere

Decency" is a very old-fashioned word that conjures up a standard of behavior that has largely disappeared from the world. — Amazon Digital Services

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy

But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. — William S. Burroughs

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. — Aeschylus

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes. — Thomas Mann

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

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Pursue decency in all dealings with your fellow man and woman. Simply put? Don't be an asshole. — Nick Offerman

Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly. — Jay Lake

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

Said to Mairin;
"There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"! — Maya Banks

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat? — Jack Kerouac

Justice is the reason we have law, and law is man's feeble attempt to teach decency to others. — Joy Ratcliff Cagle

Value isn't calculated by a person's net worth or income. It's calculated by integrity and decency. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Lost Decency (a memoir) covers three phases of Afghanistan's last 50 years (Where it was? What Happened and Where it is headed?) — Atta Arghandiwal

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears. — Barack Obama

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence — George Bernard Shaw

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day. — Seneca The Younger

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

He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. — Khaled Hosseini

Honor is decency without vanity. — Arthur Koestler

Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living. — Kobo Abe

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. — Christopher Hitchens

Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency. — Guo Moruo

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

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

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 think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. — Gaby Hoffmann

Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'. — Don King

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

It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy. — Irvine Welsh

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

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance. — Ada Leverson

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. — Dag Hammarskjold

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. — Louisa May Alcott

Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind. — Leigh Bardugo

If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space. — Jennifer Crusie

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life. — Scott Jurek

Women deprived of decency are the damdest creatures that ever were borned. — James Reynolds

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist. — T.H. White

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague. — Susan Andersen

Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine. — Cory Booker

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

Riding across Nebraska in a covered wagon was a monthlong immersion therapy in kindness, a reminder of the essential decency of my country. — Rinker Buck

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

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. — W.C. Fields

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency. — Jean De La Bruyere

How dared you, I repeat, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose? — Nikolai Gogol