Quotes about Decency
Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal.
- John Wooden
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
- Cicero
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
- Samuel Johnson
Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.
- Mark Batterson
We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
- Michelle Obama
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
- Genesis 9:23
You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
- Leviticus 18:23
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- Romans 13:13
Abstain from every form of evil.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22
I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.
- James Faust
We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
- Michelle Obama