I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.

- Deborah Kerr

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

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

- James L. Brooks

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

- Harold MacMillan

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

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think Utahns - and I won't speak for all Utahns - but my sense is that they have real issues with Donald Trump's lack of decency, with his bigotry, the way he's divided this country. That's not the Utahn way. I think they have issues with his attacks on religious minorities.

- Evan McMullin

I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

- Edith Pearlman

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

- Dag Hammarskjold

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

- Charles W. Pickering

In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.

- Craig Brown

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

- Caroline Kennedy

Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

- Cory Booker

Is there decency left in American politics?

- Byron Dorgan

Art should never be held above our decency to each other.

- Allison Anders

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

- Alphonso Jackson

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

- Aeschylus