{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Chögyam Trungpa","tags":["decency","genuine","simplicity","straightforwardness","warrior"],"id":4073,"author_id":"Ch%C3%B6gyam+Trungpa"},{"text":"All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?!You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness!Your judgement is shit!Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai.","author":"Rick Remender","tags":["atomic-garden","decency","forgiveness","hospitality","judgement","kazumi","learning","rectitude","samurai"],"id":10485,"author_id":"Rick+Remender"},{"text":"Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["bushido","character","common-good","decency","dojo","execution","fighting-spirit","integrity","justice","karate","kenpo","man","martial-arts","okinawa","sensei","shorinjiryu","techniques","truth"],"id":46123,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Clinging to one’s outward appearance interferes with living.","author":"Kōbō Abe","tags":["appearances","decandence","decency","society"],"id":59365,"author_id":"K%C5%8Db%C5%8D+Abe"},{"text":"Curious,' it said. 'What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere brazenness were a sign of honesty; really, the theory of decency is the most amusing thing in the world.","author":"John Kendrick Bangs","tags":["decency","trust"],"id":65237,"author_id":"John+Kendrick+Bangs"},{"text":"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["civil-rights","decency","dr-king","labor","labor-activism","martin-luther-king-jr","mlk","respect","right-to-work","rtw","teamsters","union-busting","unions","working-man"],"id":69790,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.","author":"Walter Scott","tags":["decency","philosophy","truth","virtue"],"id":74651,"author_id":"Walter+Scott"},{"text":"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["art","artists","decency","innocence","need","writing"],"id":83693,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors.","author":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","tags":["communication","connecting","decency","humanity"],"id":88765,"author_id":"Antoine+de+Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry"},{"text":"Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.","author":"CM Punk","tags":["decency","respect"],"id":96873,"author_id":"CM+Punk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}