Quotes About Respect

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

A religion that does not command the respect of the greatest minds will, in a little while, excite the mockery of all.

In the presence of the unknown, all have an equal right to think.

the women fell silent with the instinctive courtesy women often show to incapacitated males.

there's nothing like Latin for slapping the fuck out of people who think they're better than you. I've used it several times to good effect.

And there was something more, something highly unusual. Strike had never once made her feel physically uncomfortable. Two of them in the office, for a long time the only workers at the agency, and while Robin was a tall woman, he was far bigger, and he'd never made her feel it, as so many men did . . .

She was the unique woman in his life who'd never tried to change him.

there's one thing I 'ate, it's treating people diff'rent because of where they were born.

his love of privacy extended to a respect for other people's boundaries.

Sometimes she found casual physical contact with men almost unbearable

Everyone in the group apart from Strike began to talk at once, but Waldegrave's voice carried over the others' and the women fell silent with the instinctive courtesy women often show to incapacitated males.

she was tired of being taken for granted in ways Strike didn't recognize.

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.