Quotes About Civility

Lippmann declared that "if what is good, what is right, what is true, is only what the individual 'chooses' to 'invent', then we are outside the traditions of civility.

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

A lady's armor is courtesy

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

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.

And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!" "No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Courtesy is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. —LORD HALIFAX

Most people, when they think of an insult, they keep it to themselves. But you wouldn't believe the things people say on my Twitter feed, and I'm a nice guy. Imagine if I was a jerk.

Stop threatening to kill people on Twitter because you don't like what they are saying!

I think you can be conservative and fight for what you believe in without being mean-spirited or bash people or be ugly about it.

When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.

A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

War is not civilized.

Manners is treating people with respect.

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.

We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too.