Quotes About Respect

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.

I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.

I would not have married Dan Quayle had I not thought he was an equal to me.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.