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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his. And that permission flourished in the psyches of all kinds of men.
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff.
We need sobriety, rationality, and civility in the discussions on the regulation of financial institutions so that the banks can return in a robust manner to their central role in funding the economy.
Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
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.
While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
The language has changed. When I grew up and watched the campaigns of John Kennedy, even with Richard Nixon, there was a lot higher level of civility. Now we describe a disagreement as an attack.
I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.
Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.
The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
The thorny point
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred
And know some nurture.
Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.
I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.
The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
While it's true that Washington would benefit from more civility, the Senate, behind the scenes, is an extraordinarily collegial institution.
Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.
Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.
Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.
So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof
I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.
Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.
I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity.
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.
Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.
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.
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.
