Quotes About Respect

Do not ever think you are better than someone, I will not tolerate that in my classroom, there is no one here who is better than someone else, I have just witnessed expressions on the faces of some of you that indicate you think you are better than someone else, and I will not tolerate that in my classroom, I will not.

This authority was why I had fallen in love with William. We crave authority. We do. No matter what anyone says, we crave that sense of authority. Of believing that in the presence of this person we are safe.

And that woman is not politics. She's a person, and she has every right to be here.

He was watching her, leaning back in the chair with his arms crossed. His face was serious and kind; she saw he wasn't making fun. He spoke softly, his head bent forward with concern. "A woman should learn to take a compliment gracefully," he said.

should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect:

Stop smelling me," she said to him.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestions: "How are you!" is a greeting, not a question.

Golden Rule: I won't disturb your self-interest, if you don't disturb mine.

the duty of the sovereign to respect that liberty: and when he doesn't, when "he that in a State of Society would take away the Freedom that belongs to those of that Society," and pretends to be our master rather than our servant, then it is he, not us, who is the real rebel against society.

Honor is decency without vanity.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

But I remembered that it wouldn't be polite.

No le tolero eso. —Pues revise usted, si es tan amable, sus límites de tolerancia.

In essence, games are the only universally serious activity. They leave no room for skepticism, wouldn't you agree? However incredulous or doubting you might be, if you want to play, you have no choice but to follow the rules. Only the person who respects the rules, or at least knows and applies them, can win. Reading a book is the same: you have to accept the plot and the characters to enjoy the story.

Oderint dum metuant. Que me odien, pero que me teman.

Por eso intento recordar cada día que a reyes y poderosos siempre hay que darles gracias, aunque no se tenga de qué, y nunca quejas, aunque se tenga de qué.

Respecto al vino, decía el capitán que ya tendría tiempo en la vida de beber hasta reventar, si lo quisiera, y que para eso nunca se le hacía demasiado tarde a un hombre;

A sword is like communion. It's appropriate to approach it with prepared body and soul.

Lo obsceno es concepto morboso. Para quien vive verdaderamente no hay cosa obscena, para quien vive perdurablemente no hay cosa indigna. Todos nuestros órganos nos expresan. Nuestro sexo es como nuestros ojos o como nuestra inteligencia. Bueno es repetir con Terencio o con Whitman que todas las partes del cuerpo son dignas del canto.