Civility Quotes · Page 6

“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected…

— C.S. Lewis

All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our…

— Doris Lessing

It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been…

— Mary Ann Glendon

Is it civility for Barack Obama to continually lie, to promise the same things he's promised us last year and the year…

— Rush Limbaugh

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As…

— James McGreevey

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time…

— Nick Lampson

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

— Joshua Lederberg

“Citizenship is not a spectator sport.”

— Steve Miska

A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take…

— Joseph Addison

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

— P. T. Barnum

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

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Civility is not simply about manners.

— Jim Leach

Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in…

— Barack Obama

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly…

— Bryan Stevenson

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of…

— Danny Boyle

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to…

— Richard Hakluyt

There is nothing costs less than civility.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I said this man [Donald Trump] is peeling back the onion of White civility; and every level of that onion that he…

— Louis Farrakhan