149 Quotes About Civility
- Author Cindy Ann Peterson
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Civility is crucial to all our interactions, from face-to-face to the ever-changing global digital frontier
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- Author Cindy Ann Peterson
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Since the age of Socrates, social interaction has been continually scrutinized, leading to a constant change in guidelines and rules for social conduct. As a result, societal parameters do exist surrounding how society defines proper behaviors.
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- Author Cindy Ann Peterson
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As economies change, so do communication skills. From these changes, a need arises for new ways to incorporate a healthy social compass into our lives.
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- Author Cindy Ann Peterson
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Trust is a factor in all communications, and civility reflects back to understanding and respecting our differences.
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- Author Cindy Ann Peterson
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Listen with intent to learn
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- Author Emmanuelle de Maupassant
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He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civility. She could sip from that cup. It is his presumption that deters her: his belief that he has already caught Maud in his paw.
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- Author Brad Miner
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Chivalry was more an ambition than an accomplishment, but—and this is the important thing—it was the common ambition of increasing numbers of men, and it had the effect of elevating and concretizing their civil righteousness. Religion also did this.
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- Author Bruce Reyes-Chow
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Being nice is often about avoiding conflict, letting inappropriate actions slide, or bottling up words and actions that ought to be spoken and enacted to prevent creating an uncomfortable scene. At its worst, being nice reinforces actions and attitudes that strip away human dignity.
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- Author Jamie Arpin-Ricci
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Civility is an affectation if it is not informed by some deeper quality of character.
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