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61 " All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh. "
― Whitney Otto , How to Make an American Quilt
62 " Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! "
― Terry Pratchett , Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
63 " A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor STOP calling yourself a man..at least have the decency to admit that you're a boy. You don't know what manhood is. "
64 " That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end. "
― Lise Hand
65 " It's not love on which the strongest foundations are built. It's the decency of merciful lies. "
66 " If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency. "
― Chögyam Trungpa
67 " Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist. "
― T.H. White , The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)