Top 45 Quotes About Human Decency
#1. The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.
Robert Breault
#2. 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 E. Faust
#3. This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate. You
Alastair Reynolds
#4. And you don't understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms.
Orson Scott Card
#5. Don't underrate ordinary human decency," Josh said quietly. "There's more of heaven in a guy who hands a cold soda to a hot, tired panhandler than there is in fifty moral philosophers.
John Barnes
#6. It's called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
Courtney Milan
#7. A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your opponent's nose - even in the matter of political rhetoric.
Mike Pence
#8. We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency
Dr. Seuss
#9. Surely that gift - the gift of a world of human decency - is the one that all countries hunger for still.
Lois Lowry
#10. So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. To do the right thing you must sometimes defend people who don't understand you, or who fear you, or who are angry at you. There are times when you have to operate purely on faith and continue to trust human decency even when it is no longer visible.
G. Willow Wilson
#12. Miriva refused to believe that human decency should be a privilege given only to a small few, and when she complained to her mother that she did not want to be a broodmare for the sake of alliances between the villages, her mother slapped her and sent her to the fields to pick mehazi beans
Ash Gray
#13. You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.
Nenia Campbell
#14. Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.
Frank Portman
#15. The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.
Robert M. Morgenthau
#18. My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians.
Amanda Lindhout
#19. Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
Dinesh D'Souza
#20. It's not just college grades that fall in a curve. Human decency is bell-shaped, with some of us slopping over the edges. Saints on one end, sinners on the other.
Alex Adams
#21. More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.
Ordway Tead
#22. Rules are rules, yet still
trumped always by kindness and human decency.
Sarah Ockler
#23. Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.
Chieko N. Okazaki
#24. By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.
Antonin Scalia
#25. My mother and I are in the worst fight we've ever had, one that tests the concept of unconditional love, not to mention basic human decency. And the thing is, no one is right exactly. We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.
Lena Dunham
#26. Deep down, the boringly pragmatic Liberal Party has a sunnier view of human nature than the passionately idealistic Labor Party because we are prepared to put more trust in the common sense and decency of our fellow Australians.
Tony Abbott
#27. There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you're determined to dislike for no good reason.
Gregory David Roberts
#28. We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards of love and decency.
Joel Solomon
#29. Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One's religion, political persuasion, family, financial and social status, or vocation does not hamper the common thread of personal decency running through most of humankind.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#30. Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Stephen Jay Gould
#31. Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.
H.L. Mencken
#32. In times of crisis not one should be counted special. Everyone was human therefore equal to the same misery and misfortune and good luck as everyone else. What happened to the whole 'we gotta stick together' motto? When hard times came-a-knocking, people baled on good sense and decency.
Shelly Crane
#33. Once again ... Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form ...
Doug Peacock
#34. When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.
Mary Doria Russell
#35. All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.
Whitney Otto
#36. The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.
William J. Clinton
#37. I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.
Paul Newman
#38. I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy.
And what is the truth, Stark?
It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.
Charles Grandison Finney
#39. Human rights without responsibility, without a sense of decency, a sense of compassion, is not good enough for a society to flourish ... We need to broaden our scope from the legalistic language to the language of the heart.
Tu Weiming
#40. It never seems to occur to such "criminals" that to behave with decency to another human being might also be "gratuitous.
Saul Bellow
#41. [T]he human equipment includes, for instance, a capacity for personal affection and a willingness to strangle selfish and predatory impulse with the rope of social decency.
Rex Stout
#42. We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.
Chogyam Trungpa
#43. Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H.L. Mencken
#44. Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.
Gaylord Nelson
#45. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
Eric Hoffer
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