Decency Quotes - Page 5

• 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 judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave us something to aspire to. They were people that we described as having dignity and character. That's all gone now, particularly the upper levels of the Democrat Party. There isn't any of that kind of decency, dignity, character, morality.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Character, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.

  Kurt Fuller

  Believe, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Hate, Opportunity, Promise

  "Turning Tragedy Into Compassionate Action" by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2009.

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• We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other.” - Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, War, Heart

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.71, Macmillan

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• There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Country, Men, Barometer

  Samuel R. Delany, Robert M. Williams (1964). “The towers of Toron”

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• Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.

  Guo Moruo

  Heart, Demise, Heart Breaking

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• I want the young people to pay attention because, see, back when I first met Barack, we started dating, he had everything going for him. All right, ladies, listen to this. This is what I want you to be looking for. Yes, he was handsome-still is. I think so. He was charming, talented, and oh-so smart, truly. But that is not why I married him. Now, see, I want the fellas to pay attention to this. You all listening? What truly made me fall in love with Barack Obama was his character. You hear me? It was his character. It was his decency, his honesty, his compassion and conviction.

  Michelle Obama

  Falling In Love, Honesty, Smart

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• The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the C.D.A. would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Communication, Adults, Village

  "Excerpts From Opinions of Judges on Blocking Enforcement of InternetLaw". www.nytimes.com. June 13, 1996.

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• Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

  T. H. White

  Men, Assuming, Arthur

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.433, Penguin

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• A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fundamentals, Birth, Great Gatsby Important

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Cinema, Television

  "Helen Mirren: UK is angry and cruel". www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2010.

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• I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence - we are, each and every one of us - the being called Mercy.

  J. M. DeMatteis

  Compassion, Simple, Sea

  "Mercy". Book by J.M. DeMatteis and Paul Johnson, 1993.

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• It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Taste, Easy

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• I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Thinking, People, Levels

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• 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

  Doctors, Remarkable, Complaints

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• It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

  Wangari Maathai

  Crazy, Men, West

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

  James L. Brooks

  Sexy, Ideas, Marketing

  "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.

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• There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions…I'm for decency—period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday—count me out.

  Frank Sinatra

  Sunday, Men, Blood

  Interview with Joe Hyams, Playboy magazine, February 1963.

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• You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Men, Laughing, Different

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• When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

  Henry Rollins

  Scary, Community, Looks

  "A 60 Second Commencement Address" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Sacrifice, Patterns, Kind

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• We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Bravery, World, May

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.

  Norbert Wiener

  Real, Looks, May

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.40, Da Capo Press

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• I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.

  David Lee Roth

  Occupation, Outrage, Threat

  "Van Halen invent hair metal" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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