Decency Quotes · Page 2

“Doubt makes a man decent.”

— Harry Crews

And die with decency.

— Thomas Otway

“Do right simply because it is right.”

— Alex Treacher

In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

— George Bernard Shaw

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

— Honore de Balzac

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

— Mason Cooley

Common decency is a core part of who people are.

— E. J. Dionne

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

— Robert Breault

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

— Patricia Hampl

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

— Dinesh D'Souza

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

— Bret Stephens

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

— Bari Weiss

Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!

— Maya Banks

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba

— Khaled Hosseini

When approaching me in public, do not be rude. Say please. Introduce yourself. Have manners. Be considerate. Otherwise you'll be disappointed.

— CM Punk

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

— Eric Hoffer

I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even…

— J. M. DeMatteis

The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the…

— William J. Clinton

We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is…

— Rush Limbaugh

I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense…

— Samuel Alito

To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. To find that answer, we need only look within…

— Richard M. Nixon

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to…

— Thomas Szasz

“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal.…

— Jacque Fresco

... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

I want the young people to pay attention because, see, back when I first met Barack, we started dating, he had everything…

— Michelle Obama

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in…

— Carl Sagan

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees,…

— Anonymous

I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and…

— Mary Oliver

If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic.…

— George W. Bush

You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without…

— Lord Chesterfield

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest…

— Clifford Geertz

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

— Tennessee Williams

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

— Dorothy Parker

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.

— Susan Andersen

“Authenticity lies at the heart of decency.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero