To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.
I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.
At their core, liberals assume that humans are fundamentally good and decent. This means that we believe that people are trying the best they can to make it and only ask for help when they really need it.
Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.
Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.
George W. Bush has shown himself to be a decent guy, not exploiting his former office to make top dollars giving speeches.
I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.
I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.
Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.
If a guy as good and decent with as much grace as Chuck Heston can stand up for an issue that I think is very important ... then I certainly could stand up and I plan on remaining a life member for life.
I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.
Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations it need fear no interference from the United States.
I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.
Decent people must refuse to back Corbyn and his candidates.
But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.
Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don’t run away when things are tough. It means you don’t turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion... There’s a lot of people who won’t wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what’s honorable and decent.
