Quotes About Respect

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Are you discriminating me?!

Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

Shut the f@@k up

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, become somehow extraordinarily attractive; vice itself breathes comeliness in them; but if it were to disappear, then a woman would have to be twenty times more intelligent than a man in order to inspire, if not love, at least respect.

Business was successfully concluded. But—strange is man: he was deeply mortified at being in disfavour with the very people whom he did not respect, and whose vanity and love of dress he derided.

Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

Act only on the maxim which you can will as a law for all rational beings," and "Act so as to treat rational beings always as ends in themselves and never as means only." Kant

She turned and walked a few steps, paused, then walked back to me. "You don't love him." Her face had utterly changed. From contained and still to wide-eyed and tremulous. "It would be bad enough if you did. But since you don't, please leave him to the person who does.

A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.

An elderly black man stepped forward and prayed aloud for Lincoln's safety. Much to Coffin's surprise, the President "lifted his own hat from his head and bowed to the old man."24

We are all equal in the face of nature.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Tell her how much she means to you. Tell her you were with someone else before you met her—that's very important—and unfortunately you contracted something. Be polite and discreet and very apologetic. Remember, she likes you. She doesn't know you're a whore.

Some people, like teachers and librarians and other adults, like to say that names are not important. Like sticks and stones. But they are wrong. Every word you choose means something you think it means, and more.

Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.