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Quotes About Respect

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
~ Randy Castillo
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
~ Reginald Maudling
A man can never compete with a woman's father
~ Richelle Mead
I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.
~ Rob Lowe
A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
~ Robert Bly
A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.
~ Robert Jordan
I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.
~ Robert Jordan
I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.
~ Harry Belafonte
If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.
~ Henry Latham Doherty
Make not thyself the judge of any man.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.
~ Hillary Clinton