939 private quotes tagged respect

“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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“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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“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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“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.” — Albert Einstein

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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” — Aristotle

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“I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” — C. S. Lewis

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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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“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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“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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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” — Lao Tzu

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“Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.” — Lee Iacocca

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“The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” — Maya Angelou

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“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

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“I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.” — Javier Bardem

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“America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.” — Toby Young

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“Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.” — Sophia Bush

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“Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.” — Gary Ryan Blair

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“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.” — Malcolm X

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“I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.” — Carly Fiorina

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“Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.” — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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