upstanding citizen Quotes

He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.

I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.

I just never get into trouble. It's not my thing.

I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It's nice to do that.

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking

My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community

I'm such a goody two-shoes, I've never stolen a single thing. I would not be able to handle it. I would not be able to live with the guilt of having stolen something.

There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can live a worthwhile life. The second is whether it's possible to fulfill the roles of both serious artist and upstanding citizen. It seems to me that philosophy can dissect both questions, by delineating clearly the anatomy of the good life and the structural conditions of the roles.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.