Decency Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (D) Quotes

President (George Bush) knows you can`t reason with people that are blinded by hate. But let me tell you something: Their hate is no match for our decency, their hate is no match for the leadership and the resolve of George Bush.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I`d like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn`t complacent, who doesn`t cop out.

- Paul Newman

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

- Deborah Kerr

In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

- Carl Sagan

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.

- John McCain

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.

- Michael King

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?

- Dennis Prager

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.

- Studs Terkel

Is there decency left in American politics?

- Byron Dorgan

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

- Adm. Gary Roughead

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

- Ali Karimi

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

- Allan Asher

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

- Alvina Tan

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

- Aly Byorick

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.

- Amber Boucher

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.

- Amber Boucher

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.

- Amber Schuler

He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

- Anita Gutierrez

The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency,

- Anita Gutierrez

Lew cared deeply for HP and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company, ... He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

- Anita Gutierrez

Lew cared deeply for HP and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company. He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

- Anita Gutierrez

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency.

- Baba Ramdev

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

- Henry Louis Mencken

That`s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end

- Lise Hand