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Quotes About Respect

The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been.
~ Neal Shusterman
4) YOUR LIFE IS MY GIFT TO YOU. TREAT IT LIKE ONE.
~ Neal Shusterman
She knew the greatest gift she could give her mentor was to listen.
~ Neal Shusterman
The lettuce elevated to a place of honor.
~ Neal Shusterman
I can't believe that you're being taught by the Scythe Curie. The Grandma of Death! Grande Dame, not grandma.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'm decent to everyone, Rowan pointed out. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a decent person.
~ Neal Shusterman
No, it's my rule," he told them. "It's called 'common decency.
~ Neal Shusterman
Washington was still a place to be respected, but only in the way that we respect crumbling antiquity.
~ Neal Shusterman
Mr. Akron," says a girl, fourteen or so—he can't get over the fact that so many of the kids, particularly the younger ones, are not only ridiculously respectful, but think that Akron is somehow part of his name—
~ Neal Shusterman
Let the dead be dead," agreed Rowan.
~ Neal Shusterman
Nu dispre?ui?i sensibilitatea nim?nui. Sensibilitatea fiec?ruia e geniul lui.
~ Charles Baudelaire
There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
~ Charles Bukowski
Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.
~ Charles Bukowski
Don't talk to me or bother me and I won't bother you. All right?
~ Charles Bukowski
to whom it may concern: please phone me for appointments when you want to see me. I will not answer unsolicited knocks upon the door. I need time to do my work. I will not allow you to murder my work. please understand that what keeps me alive will make me a better person toward and for you when we finally meet under easy and unstrained conditions.
~ Charles Bukowski
the best of you I like more than you think.
~ Charles Bukowski
Once you have been poor a long time you gain a certain respect for money.
~ Charles Bukowski
but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
~ Charles Bukowski
Some women are delicate things, some women are delicious and wondrous. If you want to piss on the sun, go ahead but please leave them alone.
~ Charles Bukowski
You couldn't underestimate them and you couldn't kiss their ass. There was a certain middle ground to be achieved.
~ Charles Bukowski
It's like a code, you know, a code of courtesy…because if the poor aren't decent to one another nobody else is going to be.
~ Charles Bukowski
He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character
~ Charles C. Mann