Character Quote by Amitai Etzioni

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

— Denis Diderot

“Civility is the everyday ethic of honoring the dignity of others as we would wish our own to be honored—an active commitment to justice,…

— Diane Kalen-Sukra

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

— Jay Weatherill

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think civility is important to getting things done.

— Amy Klobuchar

John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned about calls…

— Greg Lukianoff

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— David Brooks

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

— Deborah King

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

— Mark Kingwell

Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become…

— Benjamin Barber