Quotes About Respect

the phrase "stay-at-home mom" is patronizing and faintly derogatory, like "stick-in-the-mud mom" or "sit-in-the-corner mom." Do we talk about a "chained-to-the-desk mom" or a "stuck-in-traffic mom" or a "languishing-in-meetings mom"?

Truly tolerant people are hard to offend.

Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.

When a scientist splits an atom, the event is locked away like a jewel in a castle, funneling down to the public through a myriad of institutions. But when an artist stumbles upon the key to unleashing universal evil, the forbidden fruit of his painstaking labor is packaged and sold at every corner store from Bangor to Bangkok. I'm still unsure whether this is the result of a lack of respect for artists (compared to scientists) or the moral corruption of artists (compared to scientists).

Sexual harassment is using what Nature gave us to take what isn't ours. It's an act of violence not only against an individual, but the group—and it inevitably meets with the wrath of the group.

in regards to his mom and her new boyfriend] At least they never do it while I'm in the house, because that would make me quite literally barf my lentils.

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. The respect now shown for wealth and money-making has been the most fundamental change in Britain over four decades.

hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.

Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog.

No culture should be romanticized or denigrated: like all others, Indians should be understood and evaluated on their own terms

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

Wouldn't it be nice to say to people we meet, "I know something good about you," and then treat them that way? (author unknown)

A coffin striking earth is indisputably something serious." - from "At the Burial of a Friend

Dicen que el hombre no es hombre mientras no oye su nombre de labios de una mujer.

A chit is stealthily provided to the speaker to indicate that it is time now for him to stop the lecture and quit the podium, and sometimes for this purpose only somebody else is sent to go and stand beside him.