Decency Quotes

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

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

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.

Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

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

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

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

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.