For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.
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.
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
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.
. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.
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.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
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.
The death penalty is not about vengeance or deterrence. It is about justice. It is a measure of a nationss civility and moral backbone that it rewards and punishes in due measure for great deeds and heinous crimes. So, along with Nobel prizes for great accomplishments, humans must also be brave enough and morally confident enough to exact severe penalties for those who commit the worst deed known to humankind murder.
CONGRATULATION, n. The civility of envy.
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
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