Decency Quotes

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

Morals are private. Decency is public.

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

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

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

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Decency renders all things tolerable.

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

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

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

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

Honor is decency without vanity.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Is there decency left in American politics?

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

And die with decency.

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

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

The only goal is the decency of means.