Top 37 Indecency's Quotes
#2. Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
Ibn Majah
#3. Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
Nicolas Chamfort
#4. Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.
Mason Cooley
#5. A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
Hannah Gadsby
#6. Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer
Errol Flynn
#7. Subtle wits like to refresh themselves with a whiff of mild indecency.
Robertson Davies
#8. Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.
Anthony Lewis
#9. Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.
Paul Gauguin
#10. The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.
George Carlin
#11. It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
Emma Goldman
#12. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Virginia Woolf
#13. If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.
Mehmet Oz
#14. One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western civilization is to concentrate upon and increase the solidarity of the family. This solidarity begins with a child at the mother's breast.
Grace Kelly
#15. Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.
Doug Ose
#16. Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product of misfortune, something to which laws could not be applied. I had exceeded the bounds of indecency.
Jean Genet
#17. Oh, sorry, I'm thinking about Cousin Mary. Talk about a dog. That girl was so ugly we had to put a bag over her head when we went to town so we wouldn't get arrested for public indecency.
Nick Wilgus
#18. Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
Mark Twain
#19. The restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156)
Jack Kerouac
#20. Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
#21. There is really nothing more unattractive than the sight of a young woman displaying a repulsive amount of arm.
Caroline Blackwood
#23. Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.
A.C. Grayling
#24. There is no room for God's Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is no room for our Lord's creed of purity and self-denial when the media sends forth a constant barrage of profanity and indecency and materialism.
Billy Graham
#25. Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.
Tim Huelskamp
#26. He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
#27. When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.
Georges Bataille
#28. Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
Mason Cooley
#29. What I envy is not their skin but their insouciance. I envy the freedom to sin with only a little bit of consequence, to commit one selfish act and not have it mean the downfall of my entire people. Where indecency and mischief do not mean annihilation.
Kaitlyn Greenidge
#30. How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.
Gerald Scarfe
#31. It was not, as some suggest, Calvinism that made Scots hard: it was Scottish character that made Calvinism, already congenial to the national spirit, even more rock-ribbed than its Genevan counterpart.
James G. Leyburn
#32. I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me in my Faculties, enabled me to preserve my Innocence; and when all my Strength would have signified nothing, magnified himself in my Weakness.
Samuel Richardson
#33. A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel De Cervantes
#35. Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism ... It is the Fashion to be a wit ... one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.
James Branch Cabell
#36. But to betray her with battalion ... That is against decency, against Nature ... And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!
Ford Madox Ford
#37. If you have the indecency to steal my book, at least have the decency to write a review.
Grea Alexander
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