Quotes About Respect

Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him.

God's respect to the creature's good, and his respect to himself, is not a divided respect; but both are united in one, as the happiness of the creature aimed at is happiness in union with himself.

If God has respect to something in the creature, which he views as of everlasting duration, and as rising higher and higher through that infinite duration, and that not with constantly diminishing (but perhaps an increasing) celerity;114 then he has respect to it, as, in the whole, of infinite height; though there never will be any particular time when it can be said already to have come to such a height.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

It's actually better to be exploited than marginalized , in some respects, because if you're exploited presumably you're still needed.

The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.

The goal of any self-respecting human being tolerant of others is to favor anything that increases a person's ability to control her own fate, and at the very least maintain sovereignty over her own body.

But Egyptian men would do well to learn that they should treat others as they would be treated themselves. For many of them, too, are also steeped in ignorance when it comes to the question of how older Western women normally behave, based on generalizations in light of the relatively small number who are on the lookout for a bit of "touchy, feely.

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.

We're not fanatics and criminals like those from the 5th Corps. We all bow, go to mosque, and respect the Koran. We don't need an Islamic state under Alija Izetbegovic. Whether my sister will wear a veil is up to her to decide and not up to some stupid imam."8

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

Shall I show him in or tell him to go find a short and unpleasant route to hell?

Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road." Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. "Ode of Remembrance" Lawrence Binyon

Animals do not 'give' their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.

The Pygmies and the Bushmen, these oldest of all peoples, remind us that our capacities for mutuality, cooperation, and empathy are every bit as real and every bit as much a part of our humanity as our capacities for greed, competition, and exclusiveness. Raising their children with unlimited respect and treating each person as having infinite worth, they have survived longer than any other culture known to science.

Learning to surf is a mixture of respect, timing, balance, boldness, and humility, with bits of pure elation

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Discussion requires the participation of two people whose willingness to listen is as great as their desire to be heard.

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.