Decency
Decency is the quality or state of conforming to social or moral standards of taste and propriety.
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Famous quotes containing the word decency:
“Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than your humble servant, at the bottom of a challenge is; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)