Civility Quotes · Page 6

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain. Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.”

— Rick Remender

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need…

— David Brooks

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

— Alexander Pope

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

— Malala Yousafzai

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others…

— Eric Hoffer

Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor…

— Yukteswar Giri

There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at…

— Rachel Maddow

And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the…

— Mary Oliver

“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply…

— Aberjhani

It's not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters "punch that guy in the face." I…

— Ted Cruz

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue,…

— Charles Colson

They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight.…

— Jane Austen

“..civility took root at Wikipedia. It grew into a social norm...But sometimes, even the toughest social norms aren’t enough. We found there…

— Jimmy Wales

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who…

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Alasdair MacIntyre

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really…

— Hillary Clinton

In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the…

— John McCain

“Packing some heat there, aren’t you Officer?” Jake looked down and yanked on the hem of his blazer. “Don’t you worry about…

— Kristen Casey

Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect…

— P. M. Forni

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect…

— John Howard

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

— Cullen Hightower

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and…

— Amor Towles

In the deaths of figures such as George H.W. Bush there's another opportunity to prize the civility we lament as having passed.

— Jessica Tarlov

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential,…

— Masiela Lusha

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

— Dallin H. Oaks

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

— Orson Scott Card

“To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life”

— Sherwood Anderson

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

— Samuel Johnson

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

— Paul D. Boyer

Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or…

— Opal Tometi

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

— Claire McCaskill

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

— Jane Austen

“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

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