Pastoral Resources

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

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

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

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Is there decency left in American politics?

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

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

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

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

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.