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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
[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
“There were times, and this was one of them, when Rebecca quietly yearned for twentieth-century definitions of civility, when commonly shared air… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie 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
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… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“If you care about the points of agreement and civility, then, you had better be well-equipped with points of argument and combativity,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of… — Karen Handel 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
“When you push, and push, and push someone trying to act civil, and strip away all reasons to stay shackled with the… — Michael Anderle Copy Share Image
The language has changed. When I grew up and watched the campaigns of John Kennedy, even with Richard Nixon, there was a… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
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
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
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 peels back, more and more of the nakedness of rancor and hate and bitterness is coming up out of the followers. This is one of the most interesting of all of the political presidential…” quote by Louis Farrakhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2a/louis-farrakhan-1264_bitterness_i-said-this-man-donald-trump-is-peeling_1508140.jpg)
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![“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/quotes/i/77e/cornel-west-708_anxiety_i-think-nonviolence-and-the-mediation-of_1904871.jpg)
![“I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't. [...] But I am not a bully.” quote by Chris Christie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a1/chris-christie-1382_blow_i-feel-passionately-about-issues-and-i-d_2712906.jpg)
