Public Decency Quotes

#1. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

Kevin Rudd

#2. I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.

David Lee Roth

#3. Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#4. The great source of pleasure is variety.

Samuel Johnson

#5. [On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Diane Ackerman

#6. I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

Samuel Alito

#7. Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

Mike Rogers

#9. Morals are private. Decency is public.

Rita Mae Brown

#10. I know what I have said, but not what you have heard.

Michael Flynn

#11. Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

#12. I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#13. Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Donald Hall

#14. Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people.

Emmett Shear

#15. It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H.L. Mencken

#16. There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

Hunter S. Thompson

#17. In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

Charles W. Pickering

#18. I might be capable of making figures that have heart, conscience, passion, emotion and decency. But there's no call for that at all in the world. People are only interested in monsters and freaks, so I give them their monsters. Monsters are what they want!

Joseph Roth

#19. I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

Charles Stross

#20. When approaching me in public, do not be rude. Say please. Introduce yourself. Have manners. Be considerate. Otherwise you'll be disappointed.

CM Punk