Decency Quotes

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world. View quote
Gabrielle Union
Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself. View quote
Norman Angell
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. View quote
H. L. Mencken
silence is not weakness and decency is not pride. View quote
Arthur Machen
I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. View quote
Gaby Hoffmann
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days. View quote
Francis Parkman
Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers. View quote
Michele Bachmann
We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans.... My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years. (George S. Patton)
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. View quote
Stephen Fry
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic. It's just - I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective. View quote
George W. Bush
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. View quote
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss. View quote
John Kennedy Toole
Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield. View quote
William Shenstone
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency. View quote
Ted Nugent
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. Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world. View quote
John Cheever
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency. (James A. Michener)
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much that he can't get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies. View quote
William Faulkner
I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - 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. View quote
Paul Newman
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle. View quote
Golda Meir
Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself. View quote
Kevin Rudd