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- Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind. -- John G. Zimmerman
- Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy. -- Jean de la Bruyere
- Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? -- Jane Austen
- Good rule to follow: never reward someone's incivility by giving them the headline they seek. -- Joe Scarborough
- Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind. -- David Rockefeller
- Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults. -- Bryan Burrough
- Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
- Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. -- Thomas de Quincey
- Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason. -- Samuel Johnson
- It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Is not general incivility the very essence of love? -- Jane Austen
- I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults. -- Bryan Burrough
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