Decency Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

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

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

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

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.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

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

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

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.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Is there decency left in American politics?