Quotes About Respect

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

I'm not a hater, I'm not one of those people. I do think it's dope when people get recognized for whatever it is that they do, so more power to everybody who got nominated.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power!

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

Words have no power when someone isn't listening to you anymore

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

When you think about people, you give them power.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.