“Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.” BookWrittenPrideHonorBoardsDecency Author:William Faulkner
“Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.” PeopleMenFirstsTwoWholeGovernmentFormLawIndividualJusticeLibertyHonorLimitsTaxesMajorityDetermineIndividualismTaxationDecencyDespotismBoonDecorum Book:Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue Source: Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue
“... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.” ChildrenGovernmentResultsResponsibilityGroupsHonorMoonCriticismManagementAssumingWorkersIgnorantCodeUnfairDecencyEmployersRecalcitrant Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.” IfsRealRememberLawForgetLibertyPrinciplesFailingSacrificeHonestyHonorComfortWillingnessCommandmentsAssuredDecencyConvenienceReadinessWithout Sacrifice Author:Richard L. Evans
“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.” IfsArtBookDreamMotherNumbersResponsibilityWrittenSecurityPrideHonorMotherhoodBoardsAnguishDecencyRuthlessOld LadyOdes Author:William Faulkner
“Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.” LawGroupsLandWorstChangedMonthsHonorWeaponsGoldGreedIdeologyCodePairsThievesJungleDecencyTentsRuffianCode Of Honor Author:Isabel Allende