Civility Quotes

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

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

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

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.