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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)
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy. (Quote by - James L. Brooks)
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)