Best 149 quotes in «civility quotes» category

Without addressing how we live together and finding a way that respects both nature and our universal humanity, we won't have the collective ability, strength, or shared vision necessary to protect our world or build a better one.

Why is civility important? Because civilized society depends upon it. That we might coexist by a series of civil exchanges with most if not all people despite varying ideas and feelings. Civil compromises are the only reason dozens of widely varying groups working together made the United States a great power. Those who support progress promote civility; those who oppose it promote harassment and violence, no matter the political affiliation of the person who does so.

Wisdom tells us that the best time for silence is when we are mad or upset.

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

Your word is your brand and if your word contradicts the quality of what you grow and sell, you will have difficulty in your community in the future.

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

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

When it becomes more profitable to make fun of someone or berate them for their beliefs than it is to offer a constructive alternative, intellectual discourse is threatened. And, when a people can no longer rely on intellectual discourse, the society is bound to fall.

Civility cost nothing.

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

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

Civility is not a sign of weakness.

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

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

You don't have to prove confidence; when you have it, it'll show. Real confidence is quiet, tactful, civil, and humble.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

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

Fair words cost nothing.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

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

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

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

There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.