Quotes About Respect

His was a party whose distinctive and animating spirit was the love of freedom, which broke out upon occasion in the wildest vagaries of speech and doctrine. Yet it justified itself in its leaders, including Milton and Cromwell, who accorded to the consciences of others the freedom they demanded for their own - the love of liberty meaning not merely the love of enjoying freedom, but that respect for the thing itself which renders a man incapable of violating it in another.

But Mrs. Wingfold had developed a great aptitude for liking people. Surely more people would allow themselves to be thus changed if they realized how greatly the coming of the kingdom of God is slowed by a simple lack of courtesy.

When you have once learned to honour anything, love is not very far off; at least that has always been my experience.

If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal-miner.

It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.

There is nothing more dreadful in the world than to live in somebody else's house, eating his bread and doing nothing in return for it.

People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

The Burmese say that when you kill one of these birds they vomit, meaning to say, Look, here is all I possess, and I've taken nothing of yours. Why do you kill me?

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant–it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery–and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.

If thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

Many others speak deferentially to me.

Mi hijo, es mi deseo que heredes todo lo mío. Sin embargo, primero tienes que comprobar que eres capaz de administrarlo sabiamente. Por ese motivo, quiero que salgas al mundo y muestres tu habilidad para adquirir el oro, así como para hacerte respetar entre los hombres.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.

We have SUVs and PlayStations and plenty to eat, we roam the earth expecting respect and receiving it, for we are the American Middle Class, and we shall live out the full measure of our days amidst happiness and plenty.

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

In the private letters of Albert Sloane, by permission of the Sloane family.