Decency Quotes
We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.
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.
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly.
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." “Sorry,” I admitted. “I’ve been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it’s almost over.
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.
I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to look at your face again.
You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.
I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
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.
The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.
The only difference between the women I've dated and Charles Manson is that Manson has the decency to look like a nut case when you first meet him.
Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.