All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
Joshua Lederberg
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
Emmylou Harris
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
Jay Weatherill
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
Karl Rove
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
Paul D. Boyer
I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
James E. Rogers
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Michel de Montaigne
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
John Howard
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
Stephen Carter
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
George W. Bush
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