Quotes About Respect

Los hombres ofenden antes al que aman que al que temen.

When you fight to be taken seriously, you don't smile in photos.

He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against

There is no other way of guarding against adulation, than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.

tevazu, utangaçl?k ile utanmazl?k aras?nda durur

people say, "I didn't ask to be born," I think we did, and that's why we're here. We are here, and we have to do something nurturing that we respect before we go. We must. It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good.

This country is a land mass that could be called anything, and for people to act like this is some kind of sacred territory is an insanity. It's just a bunch of people trying to live together, and if we're not going to be part of a dream of equality--a part of a dream of that which is the best of us, the idea that people help one another--if we're not going to do that, then this land mass doesn't any more deserve to be revered than anything else.

This is for equality ... men and women ... blacks and whites ... jews and arabs ... oriental-occidental ... dreamers and the blind ... brilliant and the dumb ... all equal because we have decided ... they are equal ... it's a good system ...

There are things. . . that should not be touched: Books when your hands are sticky with chocolate Cars when your clothes are covered with oil Men when your heart does not love them

Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields.

Keep your distance, boss! Don't make men too bold, don't go telling them we're equal, we've got the same rights, or they'll go straight and trample on your rights; they'll steal your bread and leave you to die of hunger. Keep your distance, boss, by all the good things I wish you!

Man is a brute,' he said, striking the pebbles with his stick. 'A great brute. Your lordship doesn't realise this. It seems everything's been easy for you, but you ask me! A brute, I tell you! If you're cruel to him, he respects and fears you. If you're kind to him, he plucks your eyes out.

Ascult?, b?iete. Pe Dumnezeu nu pot s?-l încap? cele nou? colÅ£uri ale cerului ÅŸi nici cele ÅŸapte ale p?mântului; îl încape îns? inima omului. ?i d-aia, È›ine minte, Zorbas, ai binecuvântarea mea, ai grij? s? nu r?neÈ™ti niciodat? inima omului!

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.

Uno puede vivir junto al mar y no amar a los tiburones

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It.

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out