Character Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage…

— Anonymous

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

— Amitai Etzioni

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

— Van Jones

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

— George Washington

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization depends on morality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world has far too much morality.

— Steven Pinker

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 recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

— Opal Tometi

Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith and hope exist.

— Arsenio V Manalo Jr