Quotes About Respect

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

It was only in the Western world that old people were viewed with indulgence or contemptuous sympathy. In other cultures, age was respected as the period of enlightened wisdom.

Sorrow and respect didn't follow a colour scheme.

You have a good father." She was taken aback.

Hän oli kysynyt hintaani. En ollut vastannut, koska ihmisellä ei voi olla hintaa.

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

You have to preserve your dignity. And your place in line . Otherwise they walk all over you. - Wallanders' father

Jamais la femme ne se fût imaginée l'égale de l'hmôme, si l'homme, si l'homme ne lui avait dit qu'elle l'était, par « gentillesse ».

Loneliness is painful; Solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and create community...

The Father's love does not force itself on the beloved.

By offering premature advice on how to cope, by rushing to reassure, by prodding with advice, we say much about our own need for easy closure. When we barge in with such consolation, we make hurting souls into objects or projects.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

La loi n'a jamais rendu les hommes plus justes d'un iota ; et, à cause du respect qu'ils lui marquent, les êtres bien disposés eux-même deviennent les agents de l'injustice.