Decency Quotes

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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. — William Faulkner
But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and… — Jimmy Carter
They are inherently good -- the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than… — Norman Vincent Peale
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every… — Lyndon B. Johnson
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and… — Dick Gephardt
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government,… — H. L. Mencken
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. — Quentin Crisp
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
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. — W.C. Fields
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. — Dag Hammarskjold
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. — Aldous Huxley
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. — Henrik Ibsen
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. — Meir Kahane
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. — Elia Kazan
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. — Caroline Kennedy
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… — Rush Limbaugh
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't… — Harold MacMillan
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… — Thurgood Marshall
As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only… — John McCain
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me… — H. L. Mencken

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