Quotes About Deference

Respect a man, he will do the more.

If we defer to titled winners, it is only because we regard ourselves as losers. To do so is freely to take part in the theater of power.

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

Out of respect to the reverend mother I had set my

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

Progressivism, in short, was to a very considerable extent led by men who suffered from the events of their time not through a shrinkage in their means but through the changed pattern in the distribution of deference and power.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Governor McCall desired to go to the United States Senate. There was some feeling that he should continue his gubernatorial task. But McCall understood Coolidge's ambition to be governor. McCall realized that Coolidge had not announced his gubernatorial candidacy out of deference to McCall. The governor apparently desired the excuse of opposition to retire gracefully as much as Coolidge desired to be governor.

Realize that such comments are to be expected from academics. We are a pathetically contentious lot. We want others not only to be aware of our work but to admire it and, better still, to defer to the conclusions we have drawn. The problem is that our colleagues seek the same admiration and deference from us. Something has to give, and as a result, on campuses everywhere, academics routinely engage in verbal fisticuffs. Put-downs are commonplace, and insults fly.

The gifted student who has studied under a great teacher would almost certainly adopt a less independent tone in his first papers, because he would have the attitude of a pupil to his senior, besides a deference due to appreciation of his senior's achievements. A student without deference after distinguished tuition is almost always mediocre.

The psychological cement of this system was a culture of subordination which modern historians call deference.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Though the Holy Spirit is God, equal in essence to the Father and the Son, yet his role is consistently to defer honor, to seek to bring about the glory of another.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

I find it hard to respect someone just because they outrank me

Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their deference to Washington.

an excessive and unproductive deference of British physics students to their seniors. He therefore founded a club, the