Quotes About Civility

The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.

You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class

She was a polite person, and politeness meant making others feel better even if it made you feel like shit.

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The players who go through La Masía are taught to behave with civility and humility. The theory being that, not only is it pleasant to be unassuming, but also if you are humble, you are capable of learning – and the capacity to learn is the capacity to improve. If you aren't capable of learning you won't improve.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

degree of civility I normally possess," he said. "What'd she say?

was the kind of evening that people of my generation associate with a more predictable era, one that may have been unjust in many ways but possessed a far greater level of civility and trust and shared sense of virtue that, for good or bad, seemed to define who we were. It

What's that old saying? A well-armed society is a polite society.

Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.

There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States.

We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United States of America, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political beliefs and positions.

Many policemen have not completed their education, and the university can help them on this front. Education will enable them to speak well and politely to the people.

To be unkind to anyone. There's no room for that. Not on my watch.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

I think I should be respectful of fighters. This sport is brutal enough itself. I don't think you should say stupid statements or should act like savages.

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.