Decency Quotes

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

— Jackie Mason

Honor is decency without vanity.

— Arthur Koestler

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

— Louise Colet

Morals are private. Decency is public.

— Rita Mae Brown

Decency renders all things tolerable.

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

“Doubt makes a man decent.”

— Harry Crews

“Do right simply because it is right.”

— Alex Treacher

And die with decency.

— Thomas Otway

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

— Zygmunt Bauman

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

— Arthur Machen

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

— Dodie Smith

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

— Ted Nugent

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

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

— George Bernard Shaw

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for…

— Jonathan Kozol

I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and…

— Gaby Hoffmann

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

— Samuel Johnson

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a…

— Mary McAleese

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of…

— George Henry Borrow

“One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me.…

— Suzanne Collins

“Tristan flexed his jaw. “How is it that you seem to have no sense of decency when it comes to your personal…

— Chelsea Fine

Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of…

— Roger Ebert

“Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into…

— Sorin Suciu

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks…

— Lord Chesterfield

It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people…

— John Morrison

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy…

— Wangari Maathai

“Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot…

— Shirley Hazzard

The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a…

— John Locke

She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only…

— Glen Duncan

What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language…

— George Saunders

“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,…

— Thomas Paine

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,…

— Eric Hoffer

“Because, if you stop to think of it, the three Rules of Robotics are the essential guiding principles of a good many…

— Isaac Asimov

The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.…

— Robert Anton Wilson