Top 1200 Common Decency Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
The common person fears to think beyond the common.
Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.
I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
Common sense needs to be more common.
I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying to divide us.
You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon
Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly.
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.
Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united by a common culture, we have become a people divided by a common malady.
Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.
You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person.
We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond.
This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.
If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence.
No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.
What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.
When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.
Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.
It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.
I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way.
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.
Common sense is not always common practice.
Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
