Decency Quotes

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

If I offend anybody tonight, I apologize. That's not my intention. I'm not going to guess what your personal line of decency is; I cross my own from time to time - it's how I know I still have one.

You're a great brother. You give us a heart attack worrying about your heart attack, which you didn't even have the decency to have!

Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.

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.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

Honor is decency without vanity.

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.

The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.