Incivility Quotes

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

Incivility is not the disease. It is the symptom. Partisanship is the disease…. When your highest duty is to your party, the public interest becomes subservient.

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.

If you're mean to a gentle man, it makes your meanness worse.

I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation.

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

At times I thought guys were going to pop me right there in Town Hall …. The level of incivility is more than I'm willing to put up with. I like to ski … drink a beer, and not have someone come up to me and complain.

Some people don’t respond to civility.

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.

Disrespect is my biggest pet peeve.

There's always been incivility in politics.

I think Donald Trump's language and the way that he presents things oftentimes is not good.

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.

I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

It's the rising tide of enmity in the country, Donald Trump attacking judges, Donald Trump attacking John McCain, Senator [Richard] Blumenthal, the town halls, the riots in Berkeley. You have got the incivility on the floor of the United States Senate. You have got just a rising tide, every single story.

Rudeness can make me angry.

Good rule to follow: never reward someone's incivility by giving them the headline they seek.

The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

Rudeness makes me very angry.