Quotes About Respect

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too.

I play in a league that's 70 percent black and my peers, guys I come to work with, guys I respect who are very socially aware and are intellectual guys, if they identify something that they think is worth putting their reputations on the line, creating controversy, I'm going to listen to those guys.

Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.

We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society.

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

I don't like orange soda, but I don't wish Sunkist goes out of business. I just don't drink it.

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women's sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.

I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs.

An Israeli soldier is raised on values of respecting human life, and they don't change their values when they turn 18 and enter the army.

Although I'm the one who decides at the end of the day, I don't just want the players to walk behind me like soldiers. They should have their own opinions and come forward with ideas.

We should be proud of the soldiers who laid down their lives for our motherland. We should be proud of them.

Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.

I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.'

When you think of the sacrifices our firefighters make, think about the service of soldiers in foreign lands and listen to their lives, you have to be careful that whatever you do, don't cast a shadow on what these great people do.

We learned that whether or not you support the war, you honor the soldiers that fight.