Quotes About Decency

I don't do vulgarity, I prefer to talk about nice things.

Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.

There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

If a guy treats me respectfully and the waiter demeaningly, I'm turned off.

There are only so many things you can do in life, and if you think I'm going to spend my waking hours thinking about some decency in some Tory or other, forget it.

I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

Using the term 'locker room talk' blurs the line between what is criminal and what is simply oafish. That's not a line anyone should want blurred.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

This can not be about a race to the bottom.

I'm not gonna talk-trash and that's the bottom line.

I've never been a bad boy.

I rage when Boris Johnson is more interested in sucking up to Donald Trump than standing up for British values of decency, equality and respect.

We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.

in the post-Gandhian war for power the first casualty is decency'.

And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank

She lamented about her love of life, that life without grace and charm, and almost without decency, but of an exalted faithfulness of purpose, even into murder.

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Pienso, como pensaba Cecil, que la lucha por la familia, por los ciudadanos libres y por todo lo decente ha de librarse hoy día desde la sección combativa del cristianismo.

Book: [to Mal] If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Because it's no longer enough to be a decent person. It's no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell.