Top 461 Decency Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly.
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to protect it.
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
Art should never be held above our decency to each other.
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
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.
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.
Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.
You're no angel. You're Fallen. You just haven't had the decency to lose your wings. [Reaver]
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.
Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.
Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.
I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to look at your face again.
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and 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'.
Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?
When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.
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.
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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.
I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way.
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.
I do not have to agree with everything a candidate believes, but I do have to believe that they represent core American values, and they will lead with decency and sincerity.
I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.
If there was one last thing I could do in my life, it would be to help Dilma turn this country around, with the decency that the Brazilian public deserves.
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
