Quotes about Civility

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

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

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

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

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

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

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

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

England had decidedly turned its back on any expressions of what we might call serious Christian belief. Having led to so much division and violence, religion was now in full-scale retreat. The churches of mid-eighteenth-century England all but abandoned orthodox, historical Christianity and now preached a tepid kind of moralism that seemed to present civility and the preservation of the status quo as the summum bonnum.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency