Morals are private. Decency is public. Rita Mae Brown
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race. H L Mencken
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence. Cicero
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Pablo Casals
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. Quentin Crisp
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. Dag Hammarskjold
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
Decency is indecency’s conspiracy of silence. George Bernard Shaw