Quotes about Civility

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

At the end of the day, we can talk about anything but we have to be respectful.

People ask, 'How do you work with the other side?' Well, I start by not saying bad things about them.

Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.

Whatever worldview we espouse, dialogue and debate should take place with civility and courteous listening. But our times make that ideal so elusive. Holding a supposedly noble belief and reducing it to ignoble means of propagation makes the one who holds that belief suspect.

Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.