Quotes About Respect

By God, if I were twenty years younger," he thundered, "I'd drag you outside and horsewhip you!" Steven

If I were any man but myself," he said, "I would turn you over my knee and blister your backside!" Tossing

When it comes to letting another man lay his hands on you, I have no honor," he said bluntly. She

Let's get one thing clear between us, Shiloh. I would never laugh at you. I might tease the dickens out of you, but I would never, ever make fun of you. That's not who I am. I don't believe in humiliating another person. It's not in my DNA.

No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will ever compliment a much younger one who uses the shallow gift of her looks.

any henchman who thinks himself the equal of his superior is dangerous.

The wise do not classify. The wise do not want to be classified. Classifying people is not classy.

The man's position is not up for grabs, just as it is not his to give away. The woman's place is not the man's for the taking, nor is it hers to forfeit. The two must stand together in their respective roles. What we have been given to guard, we should never yield to another.

If you won't take your body seriously, how is anyone else supposed to?

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

An armed society is a polite society.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

Oh captain my captain

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.