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Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

-Ellen Goodman

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Ellen Goodman

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Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. obeying from within. men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. not when they are escaping to some wild west. the most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. but if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Our civility, england determines the style of, inasmuch as england is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. it is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. the english lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

Is it civility for barack obama to continually lie, to promise the same things he's promised us last year and the year before? jobs, jobs, jobs, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, earmarks, spending freezes, all of these things he's promised before. where is the civility in misleading the people?

I think making a pretense of civility toward eric alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

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