I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
“When someone has wronged you, continue to treat them with civility. It’s the ultimate mark of a mensch.” — Bruna Martinuzzi Copy Share Image
Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Civility is not something we should simply talk about one day and forget the next. It is a principle we should practice… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I describe it as tribalism because they're very tightly woven communities. Lack of civility is part of it, because that's how Internet… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
I said this man [Donald Trump] is peeling back the onion of White civility; and every level of that onion that he… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year,… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
“Whether in business or in life, you can be civil and get ahead. Whatever your age or circumstance, you can master civility.… — Christine Porath Copy Share Image
[John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
A SWEET disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness : A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not… — Wayne D. Dosick Copy Share Image
“The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
While it's true that Washington would benefit from more civility, the Senate, behind the scenes, is an extraordinarily collegial institution. — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
When we no longer hold people responsible for their choices, civility and common sense will be diminished. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don't want people to think that… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
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