Decency

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.)

    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 (1694–1773)