Quotes About Respect

Sí. Como el suyo. Un hombre con cabeza, corazón y alma. Un hombre que sea capaz de escuchar, guiar y respetar a una criatura, y de no ahogar en ella sus propios defectos. Alguien a quien un hijo no sólo quiera por ser su padre, sino que lo admire por la persona que es. Alguien a quien quiera parecerse.

A good father, if you see what I mean." "A good father?" "Yes. Like yours. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.

Caring requires paying attention, seeing, listening, responding with respect. Its logic is contextual, psychological. Care is a relational ethic, grounded in a premise of interdependence. But it is not selfless.

Love is not, anywhere, taken seriously. It's not respected. It's the one thing in the world everyone wants, but for some reason people are obliged to pretend that love is trifling and foolish.

I think, and this is my opinion only, that there are many ways of marital death. God did not intend for a husband to mistreat his wife or for him to be lord and master over her.

Don't sneak up on a woman holding a hammer.

Marriage is built on trust and respect, and when that's gone, it's like sticking dynamite under the foundation of a house and expecting it to go on standing.

You don't have to get out. I know how to let myself in, she said. I'll get you at the door and walk you to it when I return you. It's part of my job, woman, he said. Her temper flared. Don't you ever call me woman. I'm not backwoods white trash. I have a name and don't you forget it.

When someone out there says that I'm not really human—what are they giving themselves permission to do to me?

Jesus, you talk too much.

But underneath the action, it asks a question just as tough: Is it ever right to "out" someone, to take away their control of what the world knows of them?

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

Any man who calls my car a heap might as well call my wife a bitch-if I had one.

One must always be careful with books and treasure them.

Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it. Is that what you do?

If government is to respect people's autonomy, or to treat them with dignity, it should not deprive them of freedom. It should treat them as adults, rather than children or infants.

It might also count as an insult to dignity, and a form of infantilization, if the government constantly reminds people of things that they already know.

A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.

You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he were a complete idiot, drooling at the mouth, he'd still be a better person then you.

John was a man of few words and many grunts and one of his grunts could express a volume. He had a variety of them which he adapted as the situation arose. But they all seemed to express his view on life, the principle of which was, 'you leave me be, and I'll leave you be';

If anyone ever bothered to apply the rod of discipline to your backside, you probably wouldn't be so impossible to deal with.

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.

What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal.