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
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
There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States. — Jim Boeheim 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
The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
“Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
“Blowpipes and darts——heathen, I call it,” said Mrs. Mitchell. “You are right,” said Poirot, addressing her with a flattering air of being… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
How do we have a society that maximizes peace, civility and well-being for everyone? How do we have a system of individual… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“It is in the home that our behavior is most significant. It is the place where our actions have the greatest impact,… — Wayne S. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Be constantly civil. Martin Luther King Jr. had shown without fail his fortitude on abiding the laws of civility. In the confines… — Larry Berg Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold. — Amitai Etzioni Copy Share Image
“Civility is not what we do because we agree with one another. It is what we do because we belong to one… — Diane Kalen-Sukra Copy Share Image
“[D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.” — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.” — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
“Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.” — Chieko N. Okazaki Copy Share Image
There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on… — Willow Bay Copy Share Image
“Katie preferred honesty, even at the expense of civility. She longed to have everything in the open.” — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
“All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he… — Dmitry Peskov Copy Share Image
An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“Rules of Civility, Philip Miller’s The Gardeners Dictionary, Arthur Young’s A Course of Experimental Agriculture, and Humphrey Bland’s Treatise of Military Discipline.” — John Ripin Miller Copy Share Image
White people are getting more and more angry every day, Donald Trump was elected that the mask of civility - like an… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it,… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
“It is not enough just to be good. We must be good for something. We must contribute good to the world. The… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
![“We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his people are scumbags 'cause Trump wants to help [Vladimir] Putin put the Soviet Union back together by raping a bunch of other countries and stealing their resources.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfa/rush-limbaugh-28_back-together_we-have-a-democrat-party-once-again-addi_280550.jpg)
![“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.” quote by Emma Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ece/emma-thompson-3232_all-time_fighting-climate-change-is-important-for_612459.png)
![“[D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.” quote by Gene Doucette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ac/gene-doucette-17956_civility_d-espite-the-patina-of-civility-coating_2561497.jpg)
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