“She has educated staff on treating people with respect and decency, and she has set extremely high standards for prisoners.”

“He did not even have the decency to hold the door open for me as I walked through.”

“He was a man of decency, a gentle man, a fierce champion of the people of his congressional district.”

“When dealing with decent people, I know to apply decentness and etiquettes.”

“These include the common moral decencies of integrity, trustworthiness, benevolence, and fairness.”

“Still, those of us who believe in the importance of fundamental human rights and decencies have reasons aplenty for optimism.”

“The politics of behaviour is essentially about how we reteach these common decencies.”