<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Etiquette is not decorative obedience; it is a... > Etiquette is not decorative obedience; it is a technology for reducing unnecessary threat among social animals. Courtesy gives strangers and adversaries a shared behavioral grammar when agreement has not yet been earned. **Source:** [[livestreams/Happiness, Nonjudgment, and the Royal Practice of Letting People Be - Workbook|Happiness, Nonjudgment, and the Royal Practice of Letting People Be]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Etiquette is not decorative obedience; it is a technology for reducing unnecessary threat among social animals. Courtesy gives strangers and adversaries a shared behavioral grammar when agreement has not yet been earned.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-etiquette-decorative-obedience-agreement-yet-earned ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->