#civility

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well ↗

— Charles Colson

#faith #government #virtue #faith

....a crucial measure of our success in life is the way we treat one another every day of our lives. ↗

— P.M. Forni

#life

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#back #bad #banished #being #civility

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. ↗

— George W. Bush

#character #civility #commitment #compassion #courage

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#civility #notion #parliament #perhaps #quaint

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#family #obligation #teaching

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#being #civility #contain #depends #individuals

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#called #civility #demagoguery #elites #labels

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. ↗

— George McGovern

#civility #country #decline #disgusted #getting

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views. ↗

— James McGreevey

#back #between #civility #control #debate