“I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.”
Markings (1964)
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“We should, out of decency, choose for ourselves the moment to disappear.”
The New Gods (1969)
“If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.”
Source: Baby, Don't Go
“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Highlighted section quoted in: Robert Shogan (2009) No Sense Of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings. p. xiii
Army–McCarthy hearings (9 June 1954)
Context: Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
“The enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.”
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Slow Train
“Be a sincere effort never so misguided, to laugh at it is a breach of faith with decency.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 82
“So long as Courts of justice remain Courts of justice there must be decency maintained.”
1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 382.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)
“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”
“Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)