Quotes of: Decency Keyword

I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they waggle their ass an' flop their gun aroun'. Ma", he said, "if it was the law they was workin' with, why we could take it. But it ain't the law...

The Grapes of Wrath

...and I want you all to remember-that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the grea...

Number the Stars

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Aldous Huxley

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

James L. Brooks

Maxim de Winter: She was incapable of love or tenderness or decency.

Rebecca

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

Khaleda Zia

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

Tiger Woods

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Jeannette Rankin

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.

Baby, Don't Go

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

NOS4A2

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

Studs Terkel

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

John Adams

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.

Doug MacLeod

Colter Stevens: I'm asking you to have the decency to let me try.

Source Code

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

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Alexander Pope

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

A Thousand Splendid Suns

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

John McCain

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

Kirsten Gillibrand

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.

Lynn Samuels