Quotes About Respect

The other man leaned back his head and breathed carefully for a few minutes. John waited in respect. You had to respect pain, because pain didn't respect shit.

Cassidy was a beyond private person, and Mark had snuck into his bed on a tourist's pass. If he wanted residential privileges, he was going to have to earn them.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

Be interested, not interesting.

I can't tell you who he is. Why would I presume to know? I'm not Gay Yoda.

Are we so hierarchical that we can't respect a creature that lives beneath our feet?

can take over a week for a Venus flytrap to devour its prey, and it may only eat a few bugs in its life. Although people can force a trap to close by running a finger along it, carnivorous plant enthusiasts consider this rude.

Train every animal as if it's a killer whale" meant to work with every animal as if you could neither forcibly move it nor dominate it. "It's never the animal's fault" is pretty much what it says: If an animal flounders in training, it's the trainer's fault.

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

Conversations across religions need not, and should not, end with all participants proclaiming an ultimate unity of belief. Such an exercise only waters down both traditions into a bland universalism that, in an attempt to be inoffensive, winds up offending everyone.

Christian missionaries who seek to bring Jews the "good news of Jesus" do not do so because they hate Jews; they do so because they love Jews. On the other hand, the message that Jews are not "complete" or "fulfilled" unless they accept Jesus as the Messiah is not likely to be received by most Jews with great warmth; it is tantamount to telling Christians that their religion is incomplete or erroneous without acceptance of the Qur'an. Thus,

The best way of evangelizing is not to tell the potential convert, "Here's what's wrong with your tradition." The best way to evangelize is to show that potential convert, "Here's what's right with my tradition; here's how it prompts toward action; here's how it consoles.

holy envy," that is, the appreciation of the beliefs and practices of another.2

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Monsieur," said Madame des Aubels, "go away, I beg you." But the Angel hearkened not, and continued: "Saint Augustine, in his True Religion, Chapter XIII; Saint Gregory, in his Morals, Chapter XXIV; Isidore——" "Monsieur, let me get my things on; I am in a hurry." "In his treatise on The Greatest Good, Book I, Chapter XII; Bede on Job——" "Oh, please, Monsieur ...

I freely acknowledge that it is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

as regards ownership the right of the first occupier is uncertain and badly founded. The right of conquest, on the other hand, rests on more solid foundations. It is the only right that receives respect since it is the only one that makes itself respected.

Cercando di istruirlo, non farà altro che umiliarlo e affaticarlo. Non tenti d'illuminare la sua ignoranza, se non vuole che l'accusi d'insultare le sue convinzioni.

I respect Everest very much.