#decency

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #bolsheviks #bridges #build #built

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#believe #bobby #bobby kennedy #death #decency

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#decency #i #lacked #person #respect

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#drink #drove #even #her #i

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#decency #even #exhausting #maintain #more

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#decency #lead #matters #race #should

Is there decency left in American politics? ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#american politics #decency #left #politics

I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as "common decency". I treated somebody well for a little while, or even for a tremendously long time, and that person treated me well in return. Love need not have anything to do with it. (...) Love is where you find it. I think it is foolosh to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous. 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". ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#love #lovers #experience

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#decency #east #gentleness #goodness #impresses

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#decency #fight #his #howl #i