Decency

(194 votes)   Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(121 votes)   No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright

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(110 votes)   Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(110 votes)   We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.

R. W. Riis

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