Standards Of Decency Quotes

#1. Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation

Imran Khan

#3. The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

John Paul Stevens

#4. The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#5. We were just not good enough to play by ourselves.

R.J. Palacio

#6. They didn't need as many external rules as we did because they had internalised the standards of decency.

Anna Funder

#7. 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

#8. Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.

Don Roff

#9. High standards generally
about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else
far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.

Joseph Epstein

#10. I want to tell her to stop, to leave, but parts of me are at war. I'm happy to have her close even if it hurts, even if it doesn't make any sense. But I can't seem to reach for her; I can't hold her like I've always wanted to.

Tahereh Mafi

#11. 'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.'

Cyrano De Bergerac

#12. didn't dare ask where she would stop the machine, and still less, why there. I didn't think she'd tell me anyway.

Magda Szabo

#13. 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

#14. I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.

William Jones

#15. Blessed is the creature that knows its purpose. *

Robert Dunbar

#16. Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

Gianni Versace

#17. God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

Bob Goff

#18. We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards of love and decency.

Joel Solomon