URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I directly asked respondents why they behaved uncivilly.More than half claimed it was because they are overloaded,and more than 40 percent said… — Christine Porath Copy Share Image
President Obama promised to usher in a new era of civility in our political discourse. We should make sure that, quote, "talk… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
“Be a person that others will look for your posts daily because they know you will encourage them. Be the positive one… — John Patrick Hickey Copy Share Image
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his.… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate… — John Irving Copy Share Image
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Looking to the future, the words uncertain and scared near the top but hopeful and optimistic prevail and beneath the division one… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All he asked of her was basic civility and an ounce of propriety, but she was like one of her sea creatures,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language,… — Sid Bernstein Copy Share Image
I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the… — R. W. Apple Copy Share Image
In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
![“I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.” quote by Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/77e/cornel-west-708_anxiety_i-think-nonviolence-and-the-mediation-of_1904871.jpg)
