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Quotes About Civility

Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
~ Al Franken
Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment.
~ Bill Clinton
I'm only civil because I don't know any swear words.
~ Bill Watterson
I could unleash violence and death on women and children in Mahec, but I could no more hit a woman than fly in the air; because I'm civilised, I suppose.
~ K.J. Parker
One of our ambitions as independents is to alter our political culture. We want to leave behind the bullying, intimidation and tribalism.
~ Luciana Berger
Badou Jack ain't a trash-talker. He's very respectful.
~ James DeGale
I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
One of the tenets of civility is the willingness to be publicly courteous with those with whom we disagree or dislike when inescapably we find ourselves in their company.
~ Frank Moorhouse
entitled to: to be treated fairly and with civility and to be spoken to like a human being.
~ Freddie Foreman
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
~ Brander Matthews
1. People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In. 2. Speak Truth to Bullshit. Be Civil. 3. Hold Hands. With Strangers. 4. Strong Back. Soft Front. Wild Heart.
~ Brene Brown
People are hard to hate close up. Move in. Speak truth to bullshit. Be civil. Hold hands. With strangers. Strong back. Soft front. Wild heart.
~ Brene Brown
People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In. 2. Speak Truth to Bullshit. Be Civil. 3. Hold Hands. With Strangers. 4. Strong Back. Soft Front. Wild Heart.
~ Brene Brown
I sat beside Charlie. Opposite us, in the Black Maria, was a red-haired boy of my own age, and a small man with a broken nose, a cauliflower ear, and a begrudging look. He was going up for kicking his wife. He was not unfriendly, and told me his name was Donohoe. I said that by a coincidence that was my mother's name. It was not her name, but civility costs nothing.
~ Brendan Behan
Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, 'I'm a conservative, but I'm not in a bad mood about it.' I've always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.
~ Mike Pence
As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding 'yes,' and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?
~ Dan Crenshaw
It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy.
~ Eric Close
We need to understand that in the end, if we're going to make a positive difference in the future, we can't have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash.
~ Rick Santelli
It's not my style to talk trash to my opponents.
~ Lyoto Machida
Honestly, I don't like trash talk, because we gonna fight anyways, right? We don't need to trash talk.
~ Amanda Nunes
I never liked to say any trash talk about anyone, and I never go low on that level.
~ Mirko Cro Cop
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.
~ James E. Rogers
With me, what you see is what you get. I try to treat everyone with respect.
~ Dustin Johnson
For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.
~ Jay Parini