Quotes About Respect

As a Christian, my main concern is not to downgrade others' beliefs but to examine my own.

A healthy family builds up the weakest members while not tearing down the strong.

the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.

Jesus' prayers for Peter — and perhaps for Judas as well — express God's unfathomable respect for human freedom.

We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them.

It makes a huge difference whether I treat a nonbeliever as someone who is wrong rather than as someone who is on the way but lost.

Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone.

Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.

One should never offend more men than one can persuade

I would rather see you dead at my feet than dishonored.

I have my own loyalties and obligations that I consider and honor. They are not his. They are not at the beck and call of any man.

Si soy una mujer honorable, debo ser tan honorable como es honorable un hombre: sin importar lo que me ponga ni cómo me vea. Se trata del respeto que me tengo, no de la forma en la que el mundo me ve, ni de lo que suceda.

Lo llamaban convivencia: vivir unos junto a otros en armonía, sin importar sus creencias, puesto que el enemigo no es aquel que cree en un dios; el enemigo es la ignorancia y la gente que no cree en nada y no se preocupa por nada.

Wampum is a sacred thing, Nippe Sannup. Wampum is a holy thing. You should give it as a gift, to one you love to show them that you value them. It's not a coin. We should never have let your people use it for coin. It is not for sale. It shows love and respect. Respect is not for sale.

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.' And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room.

Un gentleman, c'est quelqu'un qui sait jouer de la cornemuse et qui n'en joue pas.

Et puis vous vous rendez compte que l'amour n'est ni dépendance, ni possessivité, ni convenance, ni négation de soi ou de l'autre. (p.233)

Il n'est pas vrai que nous dominons la nature et tant que ce mythe persistera, il nous maintiendra dans une illusion mortelle.

Il faudra répondre à notre véritable vocation qui n'est pas de produire et consommer jusqu'à la fin de nos vies mais d'aimer, d'admirer et de prendre soin de la vie sous toutes ses formes.