{"quotes":[{"text":"The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.","author":"Raheel Farooq","tags":["civil-rights","civility","civilization","evolution","evolution-humor","missing-link","personal-space","privacy","privacy-problems","privacy-rights"],"id":7933,"author_id":"Raheel+Farooq"},{"text":"It is not the job for those who are angry about the events of the day to strike out and post things that they hope will incite anger in others as well. Do not sell your social media friends short as far as their ability to find the news for themselves.","author":"John Patrick Hickey","tags":["civility","etiquette","kindness","manners","personal-development","social-media","success"],"id":8038,"author_id":"John+Patrick+Hickey"},{"text":"Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal.","author":"John Patrick Hickey","tags":["civility","etiquette","kindness","manners","personal-development","social-media","success"],"id":11497,"author_id":"John+Patrick+Hickey"},{"text":"I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["civility","love","peace","silence","small-talk"],"id":30046,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"When had I tamed myself? It had been a lengthy apprenticeship, begun when I was as young as ten, and continued relentlessly throughout my adolescence, when I had discovered to my own terror that I wanted to murder somebody: my father, a sarcastic friend, my professor of Latin and Greek, even a rude passerby. It was not until I was almost twenty that I began to suspect that, along with the repression of my violent impulses, I had repressed everything, even my ability to experience a profound emotion, even my impulse to do good deeds and help others. I had become as good as I had hoped to be, but good with the cautious detachment of one who never indulges in excess.","author":"Domenico Starnone","tags":["civility","desire","violence"],"id":46612,"author_id":"Domenico+Starnone"},{"text":"Democracy is a continuous, open process of civility.A democracy can never be “done”; updating democracy can never be over.Democracy can be nothing else but a continuous process, because we use it to organize our life, and life is nothing but a continuous process.Democracy can be compared to an operating system or an anti-virus software; if it does not get perpetually updated, it becomes obsolete very fast.Trusting the updates or the “improvements” of democracy to the elected and the owned mass media is like trusting the updates of an anti-virus program to virus creators; it defeats the purpose of updates or improvements.","author":"Haroutioun Bochnakian","tags":["administration","civility","democracy","government","politics","self-reliance","society"],"id":56008,"author_id":"Haroutioun+Bochnakian"},{"text":"Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom.","author":"Francine Rivers","tags":["civility","games","masks","people","venom"],"id":57726,"author_id":"Francine+Rivers"},{"text":"Be a person that others will look for your posts daily because they know you will encourage them. Be the positive one and help others to have a great day and you will find that not only they like you but you will like you too.","author":"John Patrick Hickey","tags":["civility","etiquette","kindness","manners","personal-development","social-media","success"],"id":58288,"author_id":"John+Patrick+Hickey"},{"text":"Okay, I cannot say this without being very direct. If you are looking for a spouse or even a romance through social media, you are looking for trouble.","author":"John Patrick Hickey","tags":["civility","etiquette","kindness","manners","personal-development","social-media","success"],"id":73926,"author_id":"John+Patrick+Hickey"},{"text":"That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["atheism","christianity","civility","morals"],"id":75774,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}