Top Decency Quotes
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Aeschylus
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown
I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.
Deborah Kerr
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
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt
Quentin Crisp 
Rita Mae Brown 
William Thomas Green Morton 
William Faulkner 
James L. Brooks 
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I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.
Deborah Kerr 
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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
59% of people like this quote
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt
58% of people like this quote
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall
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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
55% of people like this quote
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
Jeanette Rankin
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HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.
Alphonso Jackson
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A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. Fields
55% of people like this quote
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