Decency Quote by Louise Colet Download Open image “The laws of decency enforce themselves.” — Louise Colet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decency Law
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified. — David L. Bazelon Copy Share Image
One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule… — Dale Carpenter Copy Share Image
Protecting our communities and ensuring that every person, regardless of their status, is treated fairly is a matter of justice and decency. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands. — Bayley Copy Share Image
You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just… — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
Listen, young people, I understand narcissism - clearly. But at least I have the decency to hate myself. And that's what's missing from the… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'. — Don King Copy Share Image
If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or the right.… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
