You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
“Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering… — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“We delude ourselves if we think that decency is not rewarded in other people simply because we refuse to practice it ourselves.” — Sarah Scheele Copy Share Image
Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized… — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
“Once I fucked you, it would be all over for me. I had to have a guarantee I could get you back.… — S.E. Jakes Copy Share Image
“It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“There are people who carry decency and optimism around with them, who seem to cleanse every atmosphere they settle in, and you… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To some folk, if not to most folk, decency means pretending that the nastier things in life do not really exist. Decent… — Amado Crowley Copy Share Image
I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence of which there is so much. No sympathy for leaders who… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a… — John Locke Copy Share Image
That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
“One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a… — Mary McAleese Copy Share Image
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
“Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.” — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016. — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
