Decency Quotes

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

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 forever ineligible for public office.

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

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

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

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

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.