Daily Inspiration Quote by James E. Rogers

Rogers frames “civility” less as a nicety than as occupational infrastructure: the invisible code that keeps a profession legible to the people it claims to serve. His move is shrewdly consequentialist. He doesn’t argue that lawyers should be kinder because kindness is virtuous; he argues that incivility is professionally suicidal. “It has come home to haunt them” reads like a warning from someone who’s watched reputations curdle into stereotypes, where the caricature of the ruthless, contemptuous attorney stops being a joke and starts becoming public policy.

The subtext is that legal culture isn’t just internally toxic - it’s externally expensive. When lawyers “treat each other poorly,” they model a system that looks less like justice and more like gladiatorial theater. That in turn feeds cynicism about courts, due process, and the rule of law. Rogers is pointing to a feedback loop: adversarial posturing becomes personal cruelty, cruelty becomes institutional distrust, and distrust becomes the public’s appetite for punitive reforms, fee caps, anti-lawyer politics, or simply disengagement.

Calling himself an educator matters. He’s speaking from the stance of someone who trains professional habits, not someone scoring points in a courtroom. The intent is corrective and prophylactic: change the norms before the market and the electorate change them for you. “The public will not tolerate” is the hard edge here - not a moral plea, but a prediction about legitimacy. In a service profession, civility isn’t etiquette; it’s credibility.