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Quotes About Respect

Not fair let me see your anal gland pretty please with a cherry on top!
~ William Golding
There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
~ William Goldman
May my hands fall from my wrists before I kill an artist like yourself, said the man in black. I would as soon destroy da Vinci. However—and here he clubbed Inigo's head with the butt of his sword—since I can't have you following me either, please understand that I hold you in the highest respect.
~ William Goldman
Wow, brains as well as boobs.
~ William Goldman
You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." "You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.
~ William Goldman
each of God's beings, from the lowliest on up, is entitled to at least a few moments of genuine privacy.
~ William Goldman
The Sicilian's word was not just law, it was gospel.
~ William Goldman
you would never in this world have beaten him. But I tell you this: he would never in this world have beaten you.
~ William Goldman
To be honest is to be real, genuine, authentic, and bona fide. To be dishonest is to be partly feigned, forged, fake, or fictitious. Honesty expresses both self-respect and respect for others. Dishonesty fully respects neither oneself nor others. Honesty imbues lives with openness, reliability, and candor; it expresses a disposition to live in the light. Dishonesty seeks shade, cover
~ William J. Bennett
8. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy.
~ William J. Bennett
14. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
~ William J. Bennett
No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse. We ought, on the contrary, delicately and profoundly to respect one another's mental freedom: then only shall we bring about the intellectual republic; then only shall we have that spirit of inner tolerance without which all our outer tolerance is soulless
~ William James
No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse.
~ William James
A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
~ Chief Joseph
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
~ Chief Seattle
The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.
~ Chief Seattle
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...
~ Chief Seattle
The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.
~ Chief Seattle
At night when the streets of your towns and cities are quiet, and you think them empty, they will throng with the spirits that once thronged them, and still love those places. The white man will never be alone. So let him be just and deal kindly with my people. The dead have power too.
~ Chief Seattle
Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.
~ Chieko N. Okazaki
So...I'm the funny one? I'm the funny sidekick ? . . . That's no way to talk about anyone! To say they're just hangers-on to someone more important .
~ China Mieville
The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That's concrete individuality: an individuality that it owes its existence to a kind of communal respect on the part of all the other individualities, and that it had better therefore respect them similarly.
~ China Mieville
Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.
~ China Mieville
point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That's concrete individuality: an individuality that recognizes that it owes its existence to a kind of communal respect on the part of all the other individualities, and that it had better therefore respect them similarly.
~ China Mieville