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“Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.”

People Thinking Way Feelings Audience Taste Members Lows Ordinary Understood Crowds Frightening Impress Decency

Book:I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

Source: I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.”

Way Reality Taste Skills Judgment Observation Manners Distinction Decency Refined

Author:Edmund Burke

“It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.”

Needs Force Powerful Taste Survival Instinct Manners Consideration Get Back Decency Civility Politeness Survival Instinct Will To Live

Author:Danny Boyle

“A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.”

Needs States Nations United United States Taste Edges Theology Firm Suspects Abyss Decency Geometry Dunces

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.”

Humans Understanding Compassion Kindness Taste Normal Ordinary Lacking Decency

Book:King Dork

Source: King Dork

“Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.”

Mind Eye Social Taste Horror Notes Attraction Occasions Abortion Offense Shocked Decency Criteria Blasphemy Perversion Stunned Valve

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces