{"quotes":[{"text":"Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["barbarian","barbarism","civil","civilization","courtesy","manners","passion"],"id":144,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","civil","civilization","community","expenditure","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","judge","judgement","money","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","social","society","spending","spending-money","standard","standards","urban","urbanisation","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":14215,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn’t picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["anonymity","civil","elegant","government","social-media","the-circle","web","world"],"id":30724,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["civil","civilization","combat","cruel","cruel-people","cruelty","gentleness","kind","living","peacemaking","reign","reigning","rule","strenght","the-art-of-war","weak","weakness-and-strength","wicked-people","wickedness","witches","world"],"id":57209,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Our active civil position will lead us to the manifestation of the glory of God in our nation.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["active","civil","glory","god","lead","manifestation","nation","national-transformation","position"],"id":63937,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Because of fear, people who have civil rights can’t use them.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["civil","fear","people","rights","use"],"id":87322,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"An active civil position makes a Christian strong as the image of God.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["actice","christian","civil","god","image","position","strong"],"id":96095,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["civil","goodwill","justice","nonviolence"],"id":107155,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["active","christian","civil","country","position","reformer"],"id":208021,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same time to supply him with fishing tackle, and pointing out those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport. Mrs. Gardiner, who was walking arm in arm with Elizabeth, gave her a look expressive of her wonder. Elizabeth said nothing, but it gratified her exceedingly; the compliment must be all for herself. Her astonishment, however, was extreme; and continually was she repeating, 'Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for me, it cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened. My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this. It is impossible that he should still love me.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["austen","change","civil","civility","jane-austen","love","pride-prejudice"],"id":272011,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}