Quotes About Respect

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Less hatred, more love, less war, more peace, more respect for the Mother Nature and for other people.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Girls would never do anything so unladylike as run, Norma explained. They would skip instead. And they would never, goodness gracious, sit so their skirts would hike up. Both boys and girls were taught respect for their elders, which included never interrupting or talking back to any adult. "I'm glad I didn't live back then," Catherine said (but not until later, when she wasn't interrupting anyone).

If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.

His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?' 'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.' 'You're letting me demean you!' She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.

Just because you're rivals doesn't mean you have to be enemies.

Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

If you have so little respect for me, why are you still around?" He slipped a gentle hand into her hair and pushed a curl behind her ear. "Because I'm a sucker for beautiful, wounded creatures.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

Lucy stiffened. As annoyed as she was with Toby, she didn't appreciate hearing him addressed as "boy." Either Big Mike didn't know or didn't care how offensive that appellation was to African American males, regardless of their age. If her brother, Andre, had been around, Big Mike would have gotten a big lesson in racial sensitivity.

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.