Common Quote by Arkady Ostrovsky

“Decency" is a very old-fashioned word that conjures up a standard of behavior that has largely disappeared from the world.”

— Inc Amazon Digital Services

In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Common decency is a core part of who people are.

— E. J. Dionne

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

— George Bernard Shaw

To some folk, if not to most folk, decency means pretending that the nastier things in life do not really exist. Decent people hide…

— Amado Crowley

Decency renders all things tolerable.

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

— Dodie Smith

“We delude ourselves if we think that decency is not rewarded in other people simply because we refuse to practice it ourselves.”

— Sarah Scheele

“Common decency, good manners, kindness and hard work were treated as peculiarities”

— Ruth Hogan

“Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! Just,”

— Terry Pratchett

“It's no use preaching to the choir. The rulebook, evidence, and good, old-fashioned fact-checking – let alone human decency – have been thrown out…

— H.M. Forester

“a noble and active mind blunts itself against nothing so quickly as the sharp and bitter irritant of knowledge. And certain it is that…

— Thomas Mann