Quotes About Respect

Compassion is not just an emotion; it is a feeling that triggers a response. Compassion marries empathy and action. It also requires respect for those who will come after us—a commitment to stewardship.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seem good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Society between equals can only exist on the understanding that the interests of all are to be regarded equally.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily or mental and spiritual.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

A simple test of a civilised human being is how they describe those who have treated them badly.

And I say to myself, please, John, don't throw up over Vladimir Putin.

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

Truth must be spoken however it be taken.

Never bow to the wicked. Never obey the command of someone who is unworthy.

When I teach at Michigan, on the first day I tell the students, "You will not miss class. You will not be late to class. You will not use a laptop, or a cell phone, or wear a hat. My late-paper policy is simple: There will be no late papers, ever. That is my 'late-paper policy.' Why? This is Michigan.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.

We can toast the soldier without honoring the war.

It's because I love you that I don't want you to go." "My God, Bill, I don't want that kind of love. 'I love you, so hold still while I tie you down.' What hurts is that it's you doing it. If you can't have me as my own woman, able to make my own decisions and take care of myself, you can't have me at all.

Listen, you don't knock my reading habits and I won't knock your old black and white flat films.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.