Quotes About Respect

Mi perdoni tanta veemenza, Dmitrij Petrovi?» disse Å trum. «Ma lei mi insegna che i fisici la amano non solo perché è un'autorità, ma perché la sua autorità non l'ha mai usata per sopraffare qualcuno, perché la gioia di lavorare insieme a lei non viene dal dogmatismo, ma dalla possibilità di discutere vivacemente, persino con foga.

Let's be kind and attentive to the individual man - whether he's a bishop, a peasant, an industrial magnate, a convict in the Sakhalin Islands or a waiter in a restaurant. Let's begin with respect, compassion and love for the individual - or we'll never get anywhere.

My grandmother and all those other elders from the past kept themselves busy until they could no longer move or until they died.

People are not resources that you consume.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God.

A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and may affront it.

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.

For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Sire, said M. Myriel, you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it.

Svarbiausia, neišsigimk ? žmog?.

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.

Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave respect for darkness.

Ignominy thirsts for consideration.

El soldado de hierro vale tanto como el duque de hierro.

As for Toussaint, she venerated Jean Valjean and liked everything he did. One

Each time he uttered the word 'Monsieur' in his mild, compassionable voice, the man's face lighted up. The courtesy, to the ex-convict, was like fresh water to a shipwrecked man. Ignominy thirsts for respect.

for it seems that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable.

Monsieur to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea. Ignominy thirsts for respect.