Decency Quotes - page 2

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything, I am strongly in favor of common sense, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office. (H. L. Mencken)
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Nature might be a great experimentalist, but one who would never pass muster with an ethics review board – contravening the Helsinki Declaration and every norm of moral decency, left, right, and center. View quote
Nick Bostrom
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food. View quote
John Pilger
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency." View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
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. View quote
Studs Terkel
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. View quote
Horace
The puritanic potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of "decency". The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
And die with decency. View quote
Thomas Otway
The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies. (Mary Fulbrook)
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. View quote
Thurgood Marshall
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life. View quote
Scott Jurek
Is there decency left in American politics? View quote
Byron Dorgan
In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children. View quote
Charles W. Pickering
I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of arent aware of manners and other ways of life and common decency. View quote
Derek Blasberg
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. View quote
Dinesh D'Souza
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. View quote
Khaleda Zia
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. View quote
Michael King
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. View quote
Mike Rogers
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. (Mike Rogers)
You're a great brother. You give us a heart attack worrying about your heart attack, which you didn't even have the decency to have! View quote
Groucho Marx
I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again; I wasn't my own man anymore; I was my country's. View quote
John McCain
Scotland is a nation that has always combined many layers of identity, from the local to the global. Scottishness has always meant far more than a simple identity with nation. It is founded on cosmopolitanism, on decency, on humanity - on advancing ideas and common interests. This is the basis on which we consider our relationship with and our position in Europe. And this is why Scotland is at ease as we consider our future within the European Union. View quote
Alex Salmond
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. View quote
Tiger Woods