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Quotes About Respect

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.
~ Dalai Lama
Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.
~ Julian Tuwim
Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.
~ Craig Ferguson
You never need to defend yourself or your desires to anyone, as those inner feelings are Spirit speaking to you. Those thoughts are sacred, so don't ever let anyone trample on them.
~ Wayne Dyer
Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.
~ Mallory Ortberg
I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually respects female desire.
~ Naomi Wolf
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
~ Francis of Assisi
Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen, " he says in response.
~ Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
~ Thomas Jefferson
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
~ Angela Merkel
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
~ Jackie Robinson
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.
~ Claude McKay
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people.
~ Leon Trotsky
All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.
~ Marc Bekoff
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
~ Edward Bellamy
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
~ Booker T. Washington
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
~ Robert Kennedy
Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.
~ Barbara Coloroso
Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.
~ Maria Montessori
Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.
~ John de Ruiter
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey