Top 1200 Common Decency Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

Hang out with those who have a common FUTURE with you; not a common past.

Breaking of norms and disregard for decency have huge, long-term costs.

It's very common business for players and management to go back and forth and try to find common ground.

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Art should never be held above our decency to each other.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

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

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O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

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

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

There are no points for civility or decency when it comes to prosecuting the campaign against Donald Trump.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

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

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

We need to move forward, from the common currency to the banking union to a common financial policy and, in the middle-term, to a common foreign and security policy. That will take time, because we need to figure out how to deal with those countries that don't always want a more tightly integrated European Union.

If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.

Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

You're no angel. You're Fallen. You just haven't had the decency to lose your wings. [Reaver]

It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.