Decency

Famous quotes containing the word decency:

“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)

“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)

“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)