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Quotes About Respect

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.
~ Francois Hollande
After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.
~ Zechariah Chafee
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
~ Chris Patten
We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
~ Richard Stallman
Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.
~ Unknown
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
~ James Larkin
Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.
~ Thomas Sowell
I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.
~ Stephen Hadley
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
~ Noam Chomsky
allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
~ Alice Walker
Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.
~ Benjamin Ward Richardson
Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.
~ Mike Quigley
Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
~ Sergio Aragones
Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.
~ Horst Koehler
Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
~ Iris Murdoch
People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.
~ Joe Lhota
Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.
~ Dave Champion
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.
~ Pope Benedict XVI