Decency Quotes

286 quotes by 251 authors

What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity… — Robin Williams
Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that… — Barack Obama
It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder.… — John Morrison
Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual… — Gaylord Nelson
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer
Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph N. Welch
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union… — John Milton
The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a… — Robert Peston
At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating… — Eminem
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his… — Frank Sinatra
I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think… — William Holden
I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with… — Paul Newman
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… — Emilio Estevez
Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice… — Roger Ebert
Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in… — Kevin Rudd
Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'. — Don King
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in… — Horace Bushnell
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks… — Seneca the Younger
Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan… — Michele Bachmann
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies… — Jimmy Carter

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