Quotes About Civility

I would define an asshole as anyone who chooses to make the lives of others less pleasant for reasons that don't appear productive or necessary.

Your public-spiritedness is appreciated, I assure you.

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All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

Such higher educational degrees portray nothing than ignorance if the degree holder's conduct is uncivil, immoral, and inhumane.

The behaviour of courtesy and civility is the jewellery of your thoughts and the beauty of your expression.

The best people care, their goodness, civility, courtesy, and fairness, but not the bad ones.

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You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. Eldridge Cleaver

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

human nature" had, of course, been going on for some time. The earliest examples of "natural men" had been the American Indians. It had been they who had provided Montaigne with much of the material he had used to cast doubt on the civility and humanity of his Christian contemporaries, both Catholic and Protestant, and to suggest that, after all, "barbarian" might be nothing more than a word we use to describe what is unfamiliar to us.

And yet here there was tranquility, efficiency, a certain new-world courtesy and civility all their own. There were amazing facilities to study, unimaginable in India. The business of living was made easy, so you could get on with doing more than surviving.

Wars demonstrate that our basic impulses have changed little from those of our primitive ancestors, that underneath our civility we are just as uncivilized and savage as ever. Wars show that "our unconscious is just as inaccessible to the idea of our own death, just as murderously inclined towards strangers, just as divided (that is, ambivalent) towards those we love, as was primeval man.

We don't have an anger problem in American politics. We have a contempt problem. . . . If you listen to how people talk to each other in political life today, you notice it is with pure contempt. When somebody around you treats you with contempt, you never quite forget it. So if we want to solve the problem of polarization today, we have to solve the contempt problem.

We don't have an anger problem in American politics. We have a contempt problem. . . . If you listen to how people talk to each other in political life today, you notice it is with pure contempt. When somebody around you treats you with contempt, you never quite forget it. So if we want to solve the problem of polarization today, we have to solve the contempt problem.

Rule 3. Say no to contempt. Treat others with love and respect, even when it's difficult.

Rule 2. Don't attack or insult. Don't even try to win.

These are practical reasons to avoid them, but there's the moral reason, too: they're just plain wrong. We simply should not put up with insults, whether from the other side or our own. Indeed, I'll take it a step further. When someone on your side insults people on the other side, it is your responsibility to take it personally and stand up for those with whom you disagree.

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

Never boo or hiss at my rallies. That is for people with no hope.

I ran for Congress as a first-time candidate to fight to protect everyone with a pre-existing condition, to bring down the skyrocketing costs of healthcare and prescription drugs, to fight for clean drinking water, and to help restore civility and decency to our politics.

We have good, neighborly people in Gary.

You have to be a low-class scumbag to start calling a woman a name. If you're a man, you should never. You should be a gentleman.

If you can't say anything nice about somebody, step away from the voice enhancement equipment.