149 Quotes About Civility
- Author Cindy Ann Peterson
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Many times, it’s a misunderstanding of what is promised or expected that causes acts of incivility.
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- Author John R. Dallas Jr.
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Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.
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- Author Aniruddha Sastikar
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Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.
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- Author Barbara W. Tuchman
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He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.
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- Author George F. Will
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Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.
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- Author Gina Barreca
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Civil conversations about personal perspective will be welcome in the bunker, if only because we’ll be cognizant of the fact that incivility didn’t work out too well, given the whole apocalypse thing.
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- Author Baltasar Gracián
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He who has slaked his thirst, immediately turns his back on the well, no longer needing it. When dependence disappears, so does civility and decency, and then respect.
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- Author Peter David
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Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be something that got me high marks. I had an amused glimmering of a notion at that point: If I ever turned out to be a complete and utter fool, I could wind up running the whole kingdom. It was something to consider.
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- Author Amor Towles
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For however decisive the Bolsheviks’ victory had been over the privileged classes on behalf of the Proletariat, they would be having banquets soon enough.
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