The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy. — Antanas Mockus Copy Share Image
“It seems that anonymity prompts people to disregard civility.” — Kyle Thomas Miller Copy Share Image
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. — Jay Weatherill Copy Share Image
There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other's work unless regularly called upon… — John Smeaton Copy Share Image
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do -… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by… — Haifaa al-Mansour Copy Share Image
“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to… — Alix E. Harrow Copy Share Image
“our civility is grounded in a genuine conviction that we have much to do by way of preparing for the city that… — Richard J. Mouw Copy Share Image
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.… — Janice Rogers Brown Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now… — George Will Copy Share Image
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image