Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#decency

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #decency




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

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.


Michael King


#been #being #common #common sense #confronted

He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram conductors. Did they know that they were only puppets dancing when money pulled the strings? You bet they didn’t. And if they did, what would they care? They were too busy being born, being married, begetting, working, dying. It mightn’t be a bad thing, if you could manage it, to feel yourself one of them, one of the ruck of men. Our civilization is founded on greed and fear, but in the lives of common men the greed and fear are mysteriously transmuted into something nobler. The lower-middle-class people in there, behind their lace curtains, with their children and their scraps of furniture and their aspidistras — they lived by the money-code, sure enough, and yet they contrived to keep their decency. The money-code as they interpreted it was not merely cynical and hoggish. They had their standards, their inviolable points of honour. They ‘kept themselves respectable’— kept the aspidistra flying. Besides, they were alive. They were bound up in the bundle of life. They begot children, which is what the saints and the soul-savers never by any chance do. The aspidistra is the tree of life, he thought suddenly.


George Orwell


#capitalism #decency #middle-class #money #business

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


#ahead #decency #dignity #getting #hard

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.


Khaleda Zia


#decency #having #impossible #parliamentary #patience

The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


#connecting #decency #humanity #communication

...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say "Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156)


Jack Kerouac


#eating #indecency #indifference #food

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.


Karen Marie Moning


#funny #highlander #karen-marie-moning #spell-of-the-highlander #funny

Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.


Heather Graham


#religion #men






back to top