Quotes About Respect

Christians are under an obligation to bear witness to their faith, but this does not mean inflicting their faith on other people or forcibly requiring them to adopt it. As the founder of the Christian faith showed, you bear witness not through triumphing over your rivals but through submitting to their judgement.

Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many conservatives have failed to take seriously the many abuses to which property is subject. Libertarian

Furthermore, we can understand those basic freedoms as rights partly because we can understand the reciprocal duty to respect them. My right to life is your duty not to kill me: and duties of non-encroachment and non-infliction are naturally upheld by morality and easily enforced by the law. However

Accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession.

accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession. To

The nearby Hopis danced and prayed for rain. His people did not. They sought to live with their environment rather than to control it.

Bleys, you are still a figure clad in light to me-valiant, exuberent, and rash. For the first my respect, for the second, my smile.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

Please do not bring female visitors of the opposite sex into rooms.

Daughter-in-law is just a word. Call her anything you like. The hand of good fortune is not fussy about words.

Gossip reduces the other to he/she, and this reduction is intolerable to me. For me the other is neither *he* nor *she* The other has only a name of his own, and her own name. The third person pronoun is a wicked pronoun; it is a pronoun of the non-person, it absents, it annuls.

Rockefeller was sensitive about adults who behaved in a high-handed fashion toward him. Having assumed so much responsibility at home, he now thought of himself as a mature person.

Grant roomed with Fred Dent, who also singled out Grant as "the clearest headed young man I ever saw . . . He always wanted to do what was right, and we all had great respect for him. He was a singed cat—a great deal better than he looked.

He was also wary of upsetting the existing social hierarchy.

Still, he wondered whether republican government could withstand popular frenzy and instill the deep respect for law and authority that obtained in monarchical systems and that would safeguard liberties.

He was respectful toward his superiors but never awed by them and was always aware of their shortcomings.

For the record, he professed great respect for Isaac Hewitt, twenty-five years his senior, but he was much more caustic in private, referring to him as a "disgruntled" man, forever entangled in litigation.

We must not press him for money.

I was often there with George, his playmate, schoolmate, and young man's companion," said Lawrence Washington of Chotank, a distant relative. "Of the mother I was more afraid than of my own parents; she awed me in the midst of her kindness, for she was, indeed, truly kind.

The man born without honor placed a premium on maintaining his.

With such uncommon respect for the dollar, he couldn't cope with the psychological demands of the University of Chicago and other philanthropic commitments.

Even as a teenager, Rockefeller demanded to be treated with adult dignity.

It is hard to avoid the impression that he was deliberately tiptoeing around unpleasant subjects out of respect for her delicate medical state.

Extremely punctual for all appointments, he said, "A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily.