Decency Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

— Louise Colet

“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

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent…

— Clifford Allbutt

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

— Robert Bork

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

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

— Rene Descartes

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with law.”

— Immanuel Velikovsky

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

— Massad Ayoob