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Quotes About Respect

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
~ Gary Hamel
America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.
~ George W. Bush
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
~ Jerry Reinsdorf
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
~ Francis Bacon
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
~ Penn Jillette
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.
~ Storm Jameson
Have compassion towards each other, including animals. Love and respect every living being on this planet - a key factor to a greater society.
~ Matt Sorum
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
~ William James
And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.
~ Murray Bookchin
I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.
~ Rick Warren
We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.
~ Nelson Mandela
You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need.
~ Cristian Mungiu
The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.
~ Tim Kaine
Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.
~ John Robbins
The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals
~ Mahatma Gandhi