Decency Quotes

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

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

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

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.

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. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

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.

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.

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

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.

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.

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

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

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.

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.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

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

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

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.

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

Is there decency left in American politics?