Top 99 Decency Quotes

Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should’ve done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

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.

We are not all the same. If you care that much, if you’re that invested in us as artists and the changes that we’re trying to make and the work that we’re putting out there, then at least give us the same decency and respect to know that I am not Yara Shahidi and never will I be.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

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

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

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.

We’ve seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We’ve seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

I decry all domestic violence behavior; to condone violence against women would violate all standards of decency, run counter to my commitment to end domestic violence, and violate my core values!

The more Mr. Trump traduces the old established lines of decency, the more he affirms his supporters’ most shameless ideological instincts.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

The arts bridge cultures; they’re good for the economy, and they’re good for fostering empathy and decency.

Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

There’s no bias when it comes to facts, and there’s no bias when it comes to decency.

There are only so many things you can do in life, and if you think I’m going to spend my waking hours thinking about some decency in some Tory or other, forget it.

In the aftermath of the second world war, nations came together to say ‘never again.’ They established the United Nations and agreed a simple set of universal standards of decency for mankind to cling to: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I do think that television, in its early years, played a significant role in that standard-setting, enforcing a certain decency among people. They took their role seriously, and the people behind the camera took their role seriously, too.

I was born and raised in the Midwest, where people were taught that decency and integrity and community were all important values. We were democrats with a little ‘d.’

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It’s such a powerful force.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

I don’t see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

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

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.

When I am a good guy on TV, my character tends to be almost identical to how I am as a real person. However, as a bad guy, I get to be the opposite. I get to be a jerk. I get to talk trash, I get to say all the things that I’m thinking but have to restrain myself from saying out of respect or decency.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

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.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

We’ve defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we’ll watch it.

I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren’t aware of manners and other ways of life and ‘common decency.’

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

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.

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

I ran for Congress as a first-time candidate to fight to protect everyone with a pre-existing condition, to bring down the skyrocketing costs of healthcare and prescription drugs, to fight for clean drinking water, and to help restore civility and decency to our politics.

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

My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians.

I think being on a set where people aren’t being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.

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?

I believe in our country. Fiercely. And our institutions are the bones that keep us upright. We can and must restore decency to our system – and that requires the exercise of the checks and balances intended by our Founders.

All of us… anyone that’s been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I’ve been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes – God knows we weren’t – but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

I rage when Boris Johnson is more interested in sucking up to Donald Trump than standing up for British values of decency, equality and respect.

While Matt Bevin insults teachers and bullies our neighbors, I’m focused on restoring decency and bringing people together to get real results for our families in Eastern Kentucky.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

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

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

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.

When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.

There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God’s word is not on the clock!

Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he’s finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.