Quotes About Respect

Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive.

You don't respect me, said Dora, her voice trembling. Of course I don't respect you, said Paul. Have I any reason to? I'm in love with you, unfortunately, that's all. Well, it's unfortunate for me too, said Dora, starting to cry.

Freedom, we find out, is not an inconsequential chucking of one's weight about, it is the disciplined overcoming of self. Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement, rather like having an inaudible voice, it is self-less respect for reality and one of the most difficult and central of all virtues.

This is the fundamental wisdom that suffuses Iris Murdoch's fiction from Under the Net onward. True virtue, true goodness, true love flow from respect for the strangeness and the mystery of other people and the world that surrounds us. They flow from the refusal to inflict our own designs on them, to deny their innate elusiveness, their impenetrable quiddity.

But suicides are mysterious, and one must respect their mystery.

We must keep this love uncontaminated even if we kill it.

Since parting company with the priesthood he could almost be said to have become demoralised. Almost, for somehow he remained someone, a slightly mysterious someone, whom they respected, and they gave him the benefit of every doubt.

Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite.

Prawdziwy d?entelmen nigdy nie d??y do wyruchania dziewczyny na pierwszej randce (chyba, ?e nie planuje drugiej).

Ah nivir bother asking ma father who ah kin shag, ah idly observe. - Glad tae hear it, Sylvia says in clipped tones as Ali stifles a giggle. - Me neither... groans Matty, -...unless it's muh ma. - That's only good manners, ah shrugs.

Leave it man. Squirrel's botherin nae cunt likesay! Ah hate it the wey Mark's intae hurtin animals… it's wrong man. Ye cannae love yirsel if ye want tae hurt things like that… ah mean… what hope is thir? The squirrel's likes fuckin lovely. He's daein his ain thing. He's free. That's mibble what Rents cannae stand. The squirrel's free man.

People were deferential to power. You just had to make the right noises.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

Možeš da kažeš šta ti je volja, sve dok ne osporavaš moju re?.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Space, man, have you no respect for science?

It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can have brains, too.

Bliss approached him slowly, placed her hand on his shoulder. "Pel, I—I think well of you." Pelorat looked away. "It's all right, Bliss. You needn't be kind." "I'm not being kind, Pel. I think—very well of you.

They want to be treated as equals, they say, and so they do, but, given a chance, they have no desire to treat others as equals.

nunca cometía la equivocación de ser demasiado educado con un hombre de la Fundación. Él podía ser un extranjero, pero un hombre siempre es un hombre.

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification—even by other human beings. It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

No puede esperarse que el Universo respete las emociones humanas. Envejecerá y morirá sin consideración alguna para con los lamentos del hombre, y sus componentes seguirán alejándose unos de otros en un proceso de eterna expansión incluso después de que las galaxias se hayan consumido hasta convertirse en cenizas de enanas blancas.