Quotes About Respect

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

If there's one thing that makes a man sick, it's to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.

If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Lincoln, the Man of the People

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

Men really respect a woman who's in their power and who isn't afraid just to speak up. I feel that it's something to practice. When you hold yourself with integrity, they respond real well.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.