I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
And die with decency.
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
Morals are private. Decency is public.
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.
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.
You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
