Character Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

— 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

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

— Karine Jean-Pierre

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 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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Van Jones

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

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

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

— Henry Steele Commager

Civilization depends on morality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

— George Washington