"Morals are private. Decency is public." — Rita Mae Brown

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• God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. — Aeschylus
• That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any… — Danny Boyle
• I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy. — James L. Brooks
• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is… — Pablo Casals
• Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes… — Carl Sagan
• The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure… — George Meany
• We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these… — George S. Patton
• Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime. — Robert A. Heinlein
• The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. — Robert Breault
• When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency. — Samuel Johnson

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