Quotes About Respect

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Understanding is a two-way street.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.

If asked, you should state how you feel, how you think. But until asked, it is an intrusion to thrust your ideas on any grown human being.

One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child's why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not know the answer, and you often will not, then take the child with you to a source to find the answer. This may be a dictionary or encyclopedia which he is too young to use himself, but he will have had a sense of participation in finding the answer.

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

o one can make you feel inferior without your consent

To respect one's fellow men is perhaps more difficult than to 'love' them in a wide, vague sense. In fact, it is possible that to feel respect for mankind is better than to feel love for it. Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?

He didn't want her the way he generally wanted women, to feel them under him, to turn them over, turn them again, open them up, break them, step on them, and crush them. He didn't want her in order to have sex and then forget her. He wanted the subtlety of her mind with all its ideas. He wanted her imagination. And he wanted her without ruining her, to make her last.

Si uno está haciendo lo que le dicta su conciencia, ¿por que tienes que agachar la cabeza delante de un tipo que se porta de una manera injusta y canalla?

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

My mother said that that had been wrong. She said that children were people, whose dignity and privacy were worthy of respect. She was the only person I had ever met or heard of who thought or said anything like that.

Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.

Respect for the dead comes second to respect for the living, and I believe no man's demise exempts him from culpability.