Sentence examples for honesty and decency from inspiring English sources

Salmond says: 'Honesty and decency are I think the most important virtues for a political leader.

Fighting for the honour – through honesty and decency – of our country?

Gandhi inspired a generation to believe in truth, honesty and decency.

Speaking straight to camera in a cafe, Coogan said: "My parents taught me to appreciate hard work, honesty and decency".

Sciascia entered politics in middle age and stood out in the Italian senate as a model of honesty and decency.

He hears himself say, "I believe in the old-fashioned values of honesty and decency and fidelity".

That monologue, if you recall, compares the alleged nobility, honesty, kindness and decency of men with the "exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags" of the opposite sex.

Agnostics, on the other hand, have the courage, intellectual honesty and common decency to admit that they don't know.

Errol Morris, in his essay, says that you have "the honesty and supreme decency to portray human society for what it is: a madhouse".

His editor professed great admiration for Orwell's "absolute straightforwardness, his honesty and his decency", and would be his patron throughout the 1940s.

The editor professed great admiration for Orwell's "absolute straightforwardness, his honesty and his decency", and would be his patron throughout the 1940s.