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Quotes About Respect

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
~ Pope John Paul II
Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.
~ Randall Wright
If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.
~ Homer Hickam
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
~ James Russell Lowell
Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
~ Jennifer Aniston
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.
~ John Flanagan
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
~ John Webster
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
~ Jonathan Swift
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
~ Joseph Addison
Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.
~ Laura Bates
It is a sin to judge any man by his post
~ Saint Augustine
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
~ Samuel Gompers
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
~ Samuel Johnson
I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
~ Sean Connery
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.
~ Steve Lillywhite
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
~ Tacitus
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
~ Thomas Carlyle