Rita Mae Brown
Author, Activist
"Morals are private. Decency is public."
Decency quotes
Decency
21 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aeschylus
Playwright
"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."
Barack Obama
Politician
"A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence"
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"I believe in an ultimate decency of things."
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"Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency."
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"Is there decency left in American politics?"
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"Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!"
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"There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity."
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"At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us."
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