Quotes About Decency

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.

The only difference between the women I've dated and Charles Manson is that Manson has the decency to look like a nut case when you first meet him.

I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.

Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

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

Chevron's failure to adhere to basic standards of decency undermines the credibility of our capitalist model and diminishes confidence that our judicial system can serve the poor as well as the rich.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

It's really frustrating when you write a show and it's really funny and someone and from Standards and Decency says, 'You can't put that in because it has a naughty word.'

I decry all domestic violence behavior; to condone violence against women would violate all standards of decency, run counter to my commitment to end domestic violence, and violate my core values!

Most important is be a good man.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

I was doing it again, and I do NOT ogle strangers.

Well I'm finding it harder to be a gentleman every day All the manners that I've been taught have slowly died away But if I held the door open for you It wouldn't make your day.

If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.

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

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that "decent drapery" which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; accordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers.