Citizenship Quote by Barack Obama

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

“Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath, write: Civility is claiming and caring for one’s identity, needs, and beliefs without degrading someone else’s in the process….[Civility]…

— Brené Brown

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

— Lori Lipman Brown

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

— Jim Leach

We were wrong when we defined 'civility' as saying the wrong things the right way.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

— James Meredith

Some people don’t respond to civility.

— James Ellroy

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different…

— James Bryce

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just…

— John Locke

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

— Martin E. Marty