Quotes On Moral Decency

#1. [The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

James A. Michener

#2. Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Michael Shermer

#3. A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.

Og Mandino

#4. One person can make a difference," said Seeley, "and bit by bit, little by little moral decency can and will prevail.

Cathrina Constantine

#5. There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.

Regina Brett

#6. 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

#7. It was just tiresome thinking about folks having to fight for the least little thing. I loved my people for fighting, but hated the reason why, and that left me with that crosscut notion of pride and anger pulling in different directions, two kinds of muscle fighting for the same piece of bone.

Ravi Howard

#8. When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Henry Rollins

#9. We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;

John Hope Franklin

#10. It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis, study of the unconscious mind highlights the importance of passions and perception.

David Brooks

#11. Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children's IQs than their children's characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.

Dennis Prager

#12. 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

#13. Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Keith Miller

#14. I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

Jamie Hewlett

#15. You have to set new goals every day.

Julie Krone

#16. I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.

Stark Sands

#17. 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

#18. I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency.

J.M. Coetzee

#19. We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness - the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Orson Scott Card

#20. There was no way a world as corrupted as this could be saved or all of the wrongdoers punished.

Pooja Perumal

#21. Few places are more charming than a quiet cocktail lounge in the middle of the day with the ice tinkling in the glasses and the starched look of a bartender's white shirt and the clarity of the beer in the glass with the bubbles drifting up.

Robert B. Parker

#22. I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

Derek Blasberg