939 private quotes tagged respect

“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.” — John Bacon

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“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” — Albert Einstein

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“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.” — John W. Gardner

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“Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.” — Estelle Parsons

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“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?” — Richard Dawkins

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“One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” — Winston Churchill

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“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” — Mark Twain

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“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.” — Bertrand Russell

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“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.” — Bertrand Russell

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“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.” — John Lennon

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“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.” — T. S. Eliot

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“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” — H. L. Mencken

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