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 (106–43 B.C.)
“If you don’t believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.... Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don’t think it’s enough.”
—Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)