Quotes About Civility

I pledge to put patriotism over party, and commit to the hard work of real reform over cheap political wins, quick fixes, and empty promises.

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 never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

It's un-American for anyone to be wishing harm upon our president.

Without a way to make regular, positive deposits in social relationships that bridge political lines, every civic debate is a withdrawal without social reserves, leaving people perpetually overdrawn.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

Dalam berargumentasi jangan mengeluarkan ejekan mau pun sindiran tajam.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.

The difference between a civilized man and a barbarous fiend—a madman, say - Lies, perhaps, Merely in a thin veneer of willed self-restraint.

Even if you think such things, why do you say them?" she scolded. "If you'd just think what you please but keep your mouth shut, everything would be so much nicer.

This is war time. We can't think of the proprieties now.

Sir," she said, "you are no gentleman!" "An apt observation," he answered airily. "And, you, Miss, are no lady.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

A little hypocrisy gets me a lot further than my old method of saying exactly what I think.

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

if a being has sufficient sense of justice and civility to know it has done wrong, knowing it has done wrong is often sufficient punishment. If the being has no remorse, punishment will only increase its anger.

The ancient lizard mind lies below the mammalian mind, which lies below a primate mind, which is modified by a mind adapted to language, and since these layers have developed in response to differing evolutionary pressures, they often do not function efficiently together. Human civility tries to control ape dominance, human rationality tries to control mammalian sexuality, human social conscience tries to ameliorate reptilian greed, never with total success.