Civility Quote by Mason Cooley

Some people don’t respond to civility.

— James Ellroy

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

— Michel de Montaigne

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

— Anonymous

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

— Margaret Halsey

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings.…

— Richard Greenberg

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

— Bryant H. McGill

Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads…

— Shelby Steele

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

— Edmund Wilson

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment

— Albert Einstein

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

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

— Jim Leach