Decency Quotes

286 quotes by 251 authors

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… — Lynn Samuels
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The Government may not, through the [Communications Decency Act], interrupt that conversation. — Stewart Dalzell
You cultivate the essential virtues: high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom. — William F Buckley
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics… — Daniel J Boorstin
Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the… — Robert Francis Kennedy
The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant… — Henry Louis Mencken
I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our… — Michael Bennett
If laws banning nudity are not provided, laws against decency ought not be considered let alone being established — Abbakhuwa
When we have wronged someone, we should have the decency to apologize. Saying I'm sorry will not decrease our value in any way but rather… — Mufti Ismail Menk
The Orphan is not he who has lost his father, an orphan is he who lacks knowledge, refinement, good manners, morals, decorum, decency and humaneness — Anas
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. — Alphonso Jackson
School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal… — Henry Louis Mencken
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists… — Lise Hand
If he no work it like that it's a waste of time. ZULU the bad man right here now living the life of the good… — Zulu
Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they dont even have the decency to pay attention to me. That Im being… — Hunger Games
You can't reason with people blinded by hate. They hate the power of the individual. They hate the progress of women. They hate the religious… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Trust has been lost, Peace was there are forgotten,, decency their hydro stranger, today are still Proudly says to we are human,, the same what… — Mak_786
To some folk, if not to most folk, decency means pretending that the nastier things in life do not really exist. Decent people hide things,… — Amado Crowley
Only affect the beauty, grace the cover are in the |When the Have decency in apparel — Mak_786
Come on, that was no foul! It may be a violation of all the basic rules of human decency, but its not a foul. — Bill Walton

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