"To fail to be civil to someone — to treat them harshly, rudely or condescendingly — is not only to be guilty of bad manners," he wrote in a 2006 article, "The Value of Civility?" for the journal Urban Studies.
Today the value of civility signals awareness of the need to change.
President Obama, seeking to quiet the public disorders of which he took the Arizona shooting to be a symptom, spoke of the healing value of "civility" -- a general virtue whose desirability no one could fail to endorse.
However, more and more, we recognize that we have an even greater moral responsibility to speak up and use our collective power to promote American values of equality, civility, and respect for another.
"Attacks directed toward any individual or group within our community, based on a belief or characteristic, are inconsistent with the university's values of respect, civility and equality," university President Mark Schlissel said in a statement.
"We want to fight for a set of values, for civility and peace," he wrote.
We want to fight for a set of values, for civility and peace.
SHORTLY after Mr. Dauman became C.E.O., he declared that one of the core values of Viacom was "civility".
Initially, it seems strange that more bullying occurs in higher education, as academic jobs are still characterised by large amounts of personal autonomy and the academy promotes values of collegiality and civility.
