Decency Quotes

• A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Politics
  • Better
  • Fears

• I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

  

  Michael King
  • Things
  • Common
  • Through

• “Human society,” as C. S. Lewis puts it, “inside which minimum decency passes for heroic virtue and utter corruption for pardonable imperfection."

  

  Cornelius Plantinga
  • Virtue
  • Corruption
  • Imperfection

• 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
  • Today
  • Jobs
  • Dignity

• Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Easy
  • Fool
  • Bird

• In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Pain
  • Feelings
  • Justify

• Capitalism is the true virus that has seeped into the mentality and psychosis of every person in this country. it is up to us during this time to heal and revive any sense of human decency and dignity among one another. to care, to love, to fight for someone you do not know.

  

  Aja Monet
  • Capitalism
  • Decency
  • VIrus

• Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seemed so far behind style-setting New York, I now thank God for the cultural lag. Ours, after all, is the good neighbourhood. A society well worth preserving.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Country
  • Behinds
  • Settings

• Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Golf
  • Honesty
  • Achievements

• 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
  • Common
  • Barbarians
  • Campus

• 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
  • People
  • Decency
  • Waste Time

• It’s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Man
  • Human
  • Should

• “Barker believes that all poets should have the decency to be dead at least a century or two. I feel the same way about politicians.”

  

  Will Thomas (novelist)
  • Dead
  • Politicians
  • Decency

• When he let Kennedy use his column to send signals to Nikita Khrushchev, or lent his skill to Vandenberg to reinforce the anti-Soviet consensus in American diplomacy, he wasn't acting as a reporter but as a patriot. This urge may be a dereliction of duty in the journalist, but it is a sign of decency in the man. That the two impulses in journalism should so often be at odds — duty versus decency — tells us more about the trade than most of us care to know.

  

  Andrew Ferguson
  • Duty
  • Journalism
  • Decency

• If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Believe
  • Authority
  • Civil Virtue

• I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

  

  Michael D. Higgins
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Celebration

• There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Problem
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • See
  • Concept
  • Decency

• I think Utahns - and I won't speak for all Utahns - but my sense is that they have real issues with Donald Trump's lack of decency, with his bigotry, the way he's divided this country. That's not the Utahn way. I think they have issues with his attacks on religious minorities.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Issues
  • Bigotry
  • Religious minorities

• Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Enlightenment
  • Barriers

• No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Decency

• In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Democracy
  • Ways
  • Decency

• When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Trust
  • Virtues
  • Decency

• I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Writing
  • Paper
  • Decency

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