Quotes About Respect

Tell me something in your native woodland language.

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person's eyes or to experience that person's feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

We always put our guests' wishes first in this establishment.

Graveyards are needed before churches.

The white hunter was laughing happily, his adoring girl was open-mouthed in admiration for his nerve, I was sweating with dismay and outrage, and then an elephant charged and did not stop and our hero stepped hard on the gas and drove off, saying, "Not bluffing that time." So now I knew, lucky me, what a medium-size elephant stampede was like. Doomed to see elephants in the company of lunatics. All I wanted was to watch them with love and respect, at a reasonable distance.

Living in a Christian home should facilitate honor and respect of a worthy God and encourage wholehearted delight and allegiance toward him. As you demonstrate that you love God with all your heart, it will be easier to find examples of God's faithfulness and ways to give him the love and honor he deserves.

children have two basic biblical responsibilities: (1) to obey their parents, and (2) to honor their parents.

Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land." (Eph. 6:2-3)

I have learned, even though I have been cloistered from the world so long, that no man really looks with favour upon the one who gives him favour, unasked.

as among equals, and in purity and kindness — cannot exist between spouses." At this there was a small

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our heads that books were almost the most important thing in the world, second only to getting a good education.

matter what, and given the wrong cultural and political circumstances, circumstances that have occurred with morbid regularity throughout history, this is a lesson that may well come with a suicide clause. That parents wish to foster a certain respect for legitimate authority is understandable, and probably important for the functioning of society as we know it. But to drill children in reflexive, no-questions-asked obedience is to beat a horse that is more than half-dead already.

Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between being treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized.

I would defer to your expertise in shooting and killing things. You should defer to mine in data analysis.

I yelled, "No!" which I'm not supposed to do; I'm always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they're about to accidentally commit suicide.

Overconfident humans who don't listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.)

It must be hard to respect other people's privacy when you've had to fight and scheme for every minute of your own. Hard not to be paranoid when you remember all the times your paranoia was justified.

my favorite human.

Can we hug you?" Maro let go of Tapan and faced me. "Uh." I didn't step back, but it must have been obvious the answer was no. Maro nodded. "Okay. This is for you." She wrapped her arms around herself and squeezed.

She showed her fangs. "Just let her get to know you, then she definitely won't bother you.

You should never refer to the clients as targets; you don't want to get confused at the wrong moment.

The kinet believed that if something was worth saying once, it was worth saying a few more times, but Jai had long recognized that this was not the way of other species. She promised, "I'll stop.

Pin-Lee had promised, "Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like.")