Decency Quotes - senQuotes.com

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You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Zygmunt Bauman

Authors on Decency Quotes: George Bernard Shaw Francois de La Rochefoucauld Rita Mae Brown Louise Colet Dodie Smith Stefan Themerson Charlotte Mary Yonge Henri Robert Louis Stevenson Byron Dorgan Jean de la Bruyere Barack Obama Zygmunt Bauman Arthur Koestler Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Elia Kazan Jackie Mason Thomas Otway Jandy Nelson Aeschylus

2.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Rita Mae Brown

3.

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

Aeschylus

4.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

5.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.

Barack Obama

6.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

George Bernard Shaw

7.

Decency renders all things tolerable.

Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

8.

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

9.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Elia Kazan

10.

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

Louise Colet

11.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Jackie Mason

12.

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

13.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

Jean de la Bruyere

14.

Honor is decency without vanity.

Arthur Koestler

15.

The only goal is the decency of means.

Stefan Themerson

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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

George Bernard Shaw

17.

Is there decency left in American politics?

Byron Dorgan

18.

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.

Henri

19.

And die with decency.

Thomas Otway

20.

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

Dodie Smith

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At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

Jandy Nelson