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Civility . The 45th in a series of collections of useable quotations to make you look really smart in your next presentation or report. 

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

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

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
Mary Wortley Montagu

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

There can be no high civility without a deep morality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
Samuel Johnson

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
Jimmy Durante

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin

Whilst thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.
William Shakespeare

A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tilloston

For me, politeness is a sine qua non (without which there would be no) of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Thomas Jefferson

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts.
Adlai Stevenson II

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
Cicero