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Quotes About Respect

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
~ George Eliot
It is offensive to tell a lady when she is expressing her amazement at your skill, that she is altogether mistaken and rather foolish in her amazement.
~ George Eliot
The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger or the hem of her robe.
~ George Eliot
How can a man explain at the expense of a woman?
~ George Eliot
Oh, you dear good father! cried Mary, putting her hands round her father´s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world. Nonsense, child; you´ll think your husband better. Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
~ George Eliot
Oh, you dear good father!' cried Mary, putting her hands round her father's neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. 'I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!' 'Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better.' 'Impossible,' said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; 'husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
~ George Eliot
he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
~ George Eliot
am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.
~ George Eliot
She seems to have what I never saw in any woman before—a fountain of friendship towards men—a
~ George Eliot
Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? said Lydgate, moving to Mr. Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing. The shortest way is to make your value felt, so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not.
~ George Eliot
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
~ George Eliot
if it were possible for a healthy female mind even to simulate respect for a husband's hobby.
~ George Eliot
thee mustna take me unkind. I wasna driving at thee in what I said just now. Some 's got one way o' looking at things and some 's got another." "Nay, nay, Addy, thee mean
~ George Eliot
Love one another.
~ George Harrison
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
~ George Herbert
But there are only four really important ones: Show respect Respond by reframing Think and talk at the level of values Say what you believe
~ George Lakoff
The metaphor of Moral Strength sees the world in terms of a war of good against the forces of evil, which must be fought ruthlessly. Ruthless behavior in the name of the good fight is thus seen as justified. Moreover, the metaphor entails that one cannot respect the views of one's adversary: evil does not deserve respect, it deserves to be attacked! The
~ George Lakoff
This contrasts sharply with the progressive view that markets must respect human dignity and serve the common good while pursuing profit.
~ George Lakoff
It must be a world governed maximally by empathy, where the weak who need help get it from the strong. It must be a world governed as much as possible by bonds of affection, respect, and interdependence. Finally, it must be a world in which the nurturance provided to us by the natural environment is recognized, appreciated, and returned. In short, the natural world must be sustained, and we must do everything we can to sustain it. The
~ George Lakoff
Women are sacred.
~ Vin Diesel
In an era when so many women are stepping up to lead, I'm hoping people will focus on our ideas and accomplishments instead of our appearance.
~ Gretchen Whitmer
We know that society is better - more prosperous, more stable, more peaceful, more cohesive - when women's rights are respected and when women are valued, empowered, and lead the way in our communities.
~ Justin Trudeau
I love my mother, my wife, my sisters very much. I honour and respect them. Women are the keepers of the family.
~ Ramzan Kadyrov
Women are the reason why mankind exists. Let's give them their due.
~ Abhinav Shukla