Quotes about Decency
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.
- Theodore Roosevelt
From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the "race" of the decent man and the "race" of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people
- Viktor E. Frankl
if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of home from which all domestic virtues spring, when they live in dense and squalid masses where social decency is lost, or rather never found ... and [those who rule] strive to improve the wretched dwellings in bye-ways where only Poverty may walk ... In hollow voices from Workhouse, Hospital, and jail, this truth is preached from day to day, and has been proclaimed for years.
- Charles Dickens
Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
- John Wooden
One never does wrong by doing right.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
- Oscar Wilde
Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.
- James Faust
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.
- Isabel Allende
there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.
- Isabel Allende
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
- Kathie Lee Gifford
I am alarmed by the violence that women do to one another: professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence. I am alarmed by the willingness of women to enslave other women. I am alarmed by a growing absence of decency on the killing floor of professional women's worlds.
- Toni Morrison