"Honesty is nothin' compared to decency."

-- Jackie Mason

#Honesty Quotes #Decency Quotes

“You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane life. Language permeates all of life, of course, and one's mind is essential to it, but that does not mean intellectuality should transcend all of life.”
“...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes--”
“The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.”
“I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.”
“That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1983). “First love”, Viking Adult
“The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.”
“Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.”
“The only guy who's honest is the guy who sings in the shower. Everyone else is a prostitute.”

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