Decency Quotes

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

Harden our hearts. To the innocents in the womb and we have hardened our hearts. To the need for compassion and mercy and. Fellow feeling. And charity. And decency in this world.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

Is there decency left in American politics?

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

Common decency is a core part of who people are.

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?

I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

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.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

You're no angel. You're Fallen. You just haven't had the decency to lose your wings. [Reaver]

Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

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.

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the only people with the decency to look like a dangerous maniac the first time you meet him.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.

I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

The only goal is the decency of means.

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

And die with decency.

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

Clinging to one’s outward appearance interferes with living.