"There can be no high civility without..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The life of truth is cold.”

“You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.”

“Reality is a sliding door.”

“The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.”

“There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.”

“People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.”

“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”

“Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.”

“You must do right before you feel good.”