Quotes about Decency

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

Just as junk food and lack of exercise can ruin an athlete's condition, those things that are obscene, crude, or pornographic can breed an inner darkness that numbs our higher sensibilities and substitutes the social conscience of "Will I be found out?" for the natural or divine conscience of "What is right and wrong?

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

One result of family failure has been the loss of dignity. No better example can be found than in the use of language. It's a four-letter word in movies, on television, in comedy routines, and in real life. Time magazine asks, "Are the '90s destined to be the Filth Decade?

Too many people today want a brotherly world in which they can remain unbrotherly; a decent world in which they can live indecently. Too many individuals want economic security without spiritual security.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.