respect quotes

• So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind. ( Aristotle) [respect/mankind]
• However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. (Antonin Artaud) [present/order/respect/order]
• When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. (Decimus Magnus Ausonius) [respect]
• Respect the burden. ( Napoleon I) [respect]
• The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice. (Sandra Bullock) [respect/nice]
• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. (Samuel Butler) [respect]
• Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. (Albert Camus) [more/respect/fear]
• Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [respect/property/wish/property]
• We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen. (Shirley Chisholm) [chance/basis/respect/equality]
• Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? (Marcus Cicero) [respect/people]
• Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. (Eldridge Cleaver) [respect]
• Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? ( Confucius) [feelings/respect/men]
• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. (Salvador Dali) [order/respect/society/thing]
• I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest. (Rodney Dangerfield) [respect]
• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. (Albert Einstein) [more/respect/government/right]
• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [high/respect/literature]
• Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [respect/child/solitude]
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [respect/people/beauty/find]
• Men are respectable only as they respect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/respect]
• We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. (Benjamin Franklin) [more/people/respect/leisure]
• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. (Uta Hagen) [more/respect]
• A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. (William Hazlitt) [respect]
• Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall! (Victor Hugo) [respect/god/human]
• We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. (Thomas Jefferson) [respect]
• Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind. (Samuel Johnson) [attention/respect/give/pleasure]
• Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. (Samuel Johnson) [respect/advantage]
• Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [people/willpower/respect]
• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. (Abraham Lincoln) [confidence/respect]
• My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. (Arthur Miller) [anxiety/mankind/respect/virtue]
• Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [men/respect/death/take]
• Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy. ( Plutarch) [challenges/respect]

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