Quotes About Decency

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God's word is not on the clock!

There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.

Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

Life shouldn't be about arbitrary power, for power's sake, but about respect, mutuality, decency.

Is there decency left in American politics?

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

Israel should aspire to be a decent country. That's good enough for me.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

I think I'm a decent person.

We're all basically decent human beings so if 3,000 people are laughing at a joke then it's worth telling.

I'm a basically decent person.

In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

There's not enough money in this world to make me do something degrading.

Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person.

If there was one last thing I could do in my life, it would be to help Dilma turn this country around, with the decency that the Brazilian public deserves.

A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the purposes of law and order, cannot be crossed; or for the purposes of taste and decency, should not be crossed. We differ only on where those lines should be drawn.