The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.