Decency Quotes
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken -
I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Victoria Woodhull -
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.
H. L. Mencken -
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
Honore de Balzac -
Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
Karan Johar -
I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
Norman Vincent Peale -
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown -
A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
Charlotte Mary Yonge -
You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
Willa Cather -
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 -
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
Edith Pearlman
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As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
Clarence Day -
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
George Bernard Shaw -
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.
George Meany -
You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.
Judy Garland -
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.
Seneca the Younger -
People will value you for your transparency, your decency and your sense of purpose.
Ajaypal Singh Banga
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Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.
Ana Castillo -
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
Barack Obama -
“Human society,” as C. S. Lewis puts it, “inside which minimum decency passes for heroic virtue and utter corruption for pardonable imperfection."
Cornelius Plantinga