Quotes About Respect

He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, 'Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.

power in and of itself is neither worthy of respect nor fear; it simply is. It is how power is employed, and towards what ends, that ennobles or denigrates the wielder of power.

Love doesn't demand; it accepts, Mara to Kamlio. Mistress of the Empire - The Empire Trilogy

That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even beneath the hatred there still existed a certain begrudging respect.

Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.

when you enter another's reality, you observe her rules. Then

Mara hoarsely found her voice. 'You will take no concubine.' Her tone did not indicate a question. And her husband's steely stillness became answer in itself, until he acknowledged the truth. 'My lady, you are all the woman I could wish in this world. So long as you are at my side, I will have no other.

No nonsense. No jealousy. No neediness. Respect. Affection. Comfort. Chemistry. It was the kind of relationship people who could take care of themselves did well.

We're fighting for a society in which everyone is important.

Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. Some men.

Some men told me they wished someone would sexually harass them, because they seemed to be unable to imagine it as anything but pleasant invitations from attractive people. No one was offering the help of recognizing what I was experiencing or agreeing that I had the right to be safe and free. It was a kind of collective gaslighting.

We often say silenced, which presumes someone attempted to speak. In my case, it wasn't a silencing because no speech was stopped; it never started, or it had been stopped so far back I don't remember how it happened. It never occurred to me to speak to the men who pressured me then, because it didn't occur to me that I had the authority to assert myself thus or that they had any obligation or inclination to respect my assertions, or that my words would do anything but make things worse.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another forty-something years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.

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The point of the essay was never to suggest that I think I am notably oppressed. It was to take these conversations as the narrow end of the wedge that opens up space for men and closes it off for women, space to speak, to be heard, to have rights, to participate, to be respected, to be a full and free human being.

Her name was Her, but what was hers? His name was His, and he presumed everything was his, including her, and he thought he could take her without asking and without consequences

Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.

The dead must be remembered, but the living are the monument.

In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness —from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis.

To tell a story and have it and the teller recognized and respected is still one of the best methods we have of overcoming trauma.

Books are living things with blood and bones, and it breaks our heart when people dissect them.

and I will always have to be careful with each other. She

Als Abenteurer habe ich weder gegen die Natur angekämpft noch mich in ihr verloren. Ich habe gelernt, in ihr zu lesen, sie als gegeben zu respektieren und nicht weiter mit dem Leben zu hadern. Damit bin ich zu meinen Erkenntnissen über die Menschennatur gekommen und zu dem Mut, den Sinn in meinem Tun selbst zu definieren. Niemand hat mich dazu gezwungen. Ständig in der Wildnis unterwegs und vor das Nichts gestellt, zwingt uns die Natur zur Besinnung auf uns selbst.