Quotes About Respect

Every time I walk with Alex I'm reminded both how lucky I am to have friends like him and also how unworthy I am to have friends like him. - Oliver Stone

I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn't care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to know that he had a friend in me.

You should respect the past. You should never forget the past. But you can't live there.

You can't command men in battle if they like you

You can't command men in battle if they like you, Bob," his father had said. "They have to have equal parts fear and respect.

when people didn't treat you like you were human, there was no possibility of trust or engagement.

You can't live your life trying to make people understand something they don't want to understand.

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most? David Bowie: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation.

Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to those you despise. They are your fellow citizens. And together, we are not lesser than any greatest generation..

The Way of the Superior Man is a book written explicitly for people who have already achieved respect for other genders and sexual preferences, and who consider men and women to be social, economic, and political equals. Now, we are ready to move to the next stage, grounded in this mutual respect and equality, but celebrating the sexual and spiritual passions inherent in the masculine/feminine polarity.

He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend—he had told the truth about him.

I realized then that if I could teach my children only one or two basic principles, tolerance would be one of them.

The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.

With still, underneath, the old respectable-girl-versus-slut thing. It's OK to fuck around if you're a feminist but it's also not OK to fuck around because most guys aren't feminists and won't respect you and won't call you again if you fuck around.

So listen -- one way to lower the flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice it's original height.

Te occidere possunt sed te edere non pussunt nefas est

He and Hal exchanged the very slight sorts of nods people use when they like each other past all need for politeness.

and while a couple of prorectors are feared, none of them is all that much respected, and they're avoided, and stick together with one another and keep to themselves and seem on the whole sad, with that grad-schoolish sense of arrested adolescence and reality-avoidance about them.

Lower himself! says the lady, with a toss of her head. No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man!

And do not let squeamish Tories cry out about disloyalty; if the crown does wrong, the crown must be corrected by the nation, out of respect, of course, for the crown.

Tengo por costumbre no insultar. Respetar a los adversarios engrandece las propias opiniones. En cambio el que disminuye al adversario, disminuye la importancia de su propia opinión ¿Qué gracia tendría tener la razón contra unos necios? lo grande es tener la razón contra gente seria, brillante, pero equivocada.

I was often more at risk from my supposed brothers in blue than from my adopted brothers in the gang. Just as there were some decent qualities—loyalty, love, respect—among the outlaw bikers, there were some law-enforcement officers who were little more than outlaws with badges.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.