Their miasma envelops individuals' evils, decencies and mutual distances, and the deaths of four innocents.
Privacy isn't the responsibility of individuals to squirrel away secrets; it's the decency of individuals to leave other's lives alone.
It implied a preference for individual conscience and personal decency over any ideology imposed by government or army; and it highlighted the degrading effects of power on those who wield it.
The Equal Pay Pledge, with its appeal to the pride, competitiveness as well as decency of individual CEOs will ignite more companies, especially if we all demand this, to achieve the simple goal which has so far eluded other legislation: equal pay.
Interacting with infected individuals does not transmit the disease unless an: "individual goes out of decency having promiscuous sex all around or getting blood transfusion from mushroom clinics".
The most famous passage in "The Wealth of Nations" seems to suggest that a bunch of heartless bastards caring for no one but themselves can make a prosperous country, because the institutions in some way invent their own decencies: Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can.
On this 9/11 day, my hope for the upcoming election year is that our political candidates and the numerous pressure points on these candidates will demand accountability, honesty, and decency from individuals seeking the highest office of the land.
He was, you will find, the most powerful individual possessing the bravery and decency to stand up to Khomeini.
The point that many of us attempt to make to young people on a daily basis — one that is contradicted almost daily — is that wealth and power, or one's ability to run and jump, should not put individuals above the rule of decency, if not law.
No better illustration exists of a culture where private gain has eclipsed the public good, public service, even public decency, and where the cult of the individual has caused the commonwealth to wither.
