107 Quotes About Decency

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can 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'.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

Reason and peace not hatred and violence is ever the best way and ever shall be.

Ethics should dictate our beliefs because they are more enduring. Decency and kindness will be ever thus while human beliefs might change with the times.

There was something peculiar I noticed when about thinking about freedom. Everyone wants it but less are willing to extend the same freedoms to everyone. Seems inconsistent to me.

Do not identify with symbols, slogans, or statues because they can be destroyed and manipulated. Place your faith in freedom and decency because those ideals are eternal and cannot ever be taken from you.