Decency Quotes
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency. (Quote by - Deborah Kerr)
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. (Quote by - Studs Terkel)
In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children. (Quote by - Charles W. Pickering)
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. (Quote by - Khaleda Zia)
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency. (Quote by - Victoria Woodhull)
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. (Quote by - Caroline Kennedy)
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well. (Quote by - Michael King)
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. (Qutoe by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. (Quote by - A. Bartlett Giamatti)
We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile. (Qutoe by - R. W. Riis)
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. (Quote by - John Paul Stevens)
Is there decency left in American politics? (Quote by - Byron Dorgan)
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. (Quote by - John McCain)
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency. (Quote by - Mary McAleese)
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. (Quote by - Jeanette Rankin)
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. (Quote by - Mordecai Wyatt Johnson)
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. (Quote by - William Thomas Green Morton)
Morals are private. Decency is public. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society. (Quote by - Mike Rogers)
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness. (Qutoe by - Pablo Casals)
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it. (Qutoe by - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort)
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? (Quote by - Dennis Prager)
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense. (Quote by - Mary McAleese)
With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy. (Quote by - Michael Johns)
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. (Quote by - Meir Kahane)
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. (Quote by - Alphonso Jackson)
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. (Quote by - Harold MacMillan )
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. (Quote by - Margaret Cavendish)
The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough. (Quote by - Mike Rogers)
