quotes about Decency
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A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
-- Barack Obama -
A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
-- Charlotte Mary Yonge -
Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.
-- Dodie Smith -
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I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
-- Elia Kazan -
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
-- Gabrielle Union -
There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.
-- Henri -
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At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.
-- Jandy Nelson -
Decency renders all things tolerable.
-- Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando -
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
-- Rita Mae BrownSource : Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.84, Bantam
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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.
-- Sakyong Mipham -
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
-- Samuel Foote -
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If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.
-- Susan Andersen -
And die with decency.
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”
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Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonSource : 'Essay on Translated Verse' (1684) l. 113
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You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
-- Zygmunt Bauman -