Timothy Garton Ash Quotes

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

It there is no check to the freedom of your words, then let your hearts be open to the freedom of our actions.

Do not be over-zealous in punishing others.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

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

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

I don't support violence, period.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.