Decency Quotes

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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