Quotes About Civility

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

We're living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.

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

You don't have to be friends with everybody, you just can't be unkind to anybody.

those who offer invective rather than argument discourage others from speaking.

I think that we all got to have respect for each other. And we could all be more careful with the things we say.

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

You either have a civil society or you don't.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

I think civility is important to getting things done.

Civility is a choice.

Don't talk to me about civility when you're separating families at the border.

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

Virginians deserve civility.

For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults.

War is not civilized.

I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.

If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

But people don't on the whole fart raucously in Mozart [concerts]. So I suppose a few vestiges of the thin crust of civilization which prevents our descent into utter barbarism are just about holding. ~Vigilance, by Julian Barnes

Doing the right thing even if there's nothing in it for you is the difference between civilisation and the cesspit we're in today.