Disrespect Quotes - Page 7

• I love hip-hop videos. It was not meant as disrespect. I used to watch those videos and think, "Are these guys kidding? They've got to be kidding!" But they're not and that in itself is what makes them good.

  Chris Cunningham

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Guy

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. July 31, 2005.

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• On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine law. Indeed, some persons went so far as to question the lawfulness of strangling the witch before she was burnt. Her crime, they said, was treason against the Almighty, and therefore to punish it by any but the most agonizing deaths was an act of disrespect to Him. Besides, the penalty in the Levitical code was stoning, and stoning had been pronounced by the Jewish theologians to be a still more painful death than the stake.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Law, Painful Death, Punishment

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• One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

  Barack Obama

  Law, One Thing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families.

  Barack Obama

  Abortion, Fundamentals, Facts

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

  R. C. Sproul

  Names, Long, Use

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• That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error.

  Pope Gregory VII

  Errors, People, Misunderstood

  "They Tried to Keep God's Word From the Masses". In response to the request made in 1079 by Vratislaus, duke of Bohemia, seeking permission to use Slavonic in local church services; "Awake!" Magazine, (p. 7), December 2011.

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• There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

  Alexei Panshin

  People, Way, Insult

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people died for. An intact flag is worthless if it no longer stands for freedom. A flag burned to ashes challenges us to remember just exactly what freedom is.

  Mary Ruwart

  Freedom, Believe, People

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• Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Race, Littles, Taught

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• I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.

  Chris Hayes

  Memories, War, Hero

  "MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes", www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Most of our businesses do succeed, but if something completely fails, then as long as we bow out gracefully and pay off all our debts, and nobody gets hurt, then I don't think people disrespect Virgin for trying. The public appreciates someone having a go; it appreciates the attempt. Who's been a success in life who hasn't failed?

  Richard Branson

  Hurt, Thinking, Long

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• To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a community which shares such a scorn and disrespect for the present society that it can embrace the whole bundle of rules and subvert them thereby, that should be our goal.

  Howard Adelman

  Men, Goal, Community

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• If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

  Richard Griffiths

  Dictator, Crime, Ifs

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me. But I’m the parent and you’re the child and it is not your job to love me the way I love you. My love for you is unconditional and no matter what you decide in your life I will love you. Doesn’t mean I have to like it, but I will always love you. Love, Dad

  Janet Mock

  Jobs, Dad, Children

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• A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.

  Joel Salatin

  Pigs, Views, Other Cultures

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• Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Luxury, Excess

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.349

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• That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Good Man, World, Faults

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

  Zaha Hadid

  Hate, Men, Views

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• The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Attitude, Order, Things In Life

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• You don't have permission to disrespect yourself.

  Martin de Maat

  Permission

  "The Mysterious Martin de Maat". "Chicago Reader" Newspaper, February 23, 2001.

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• The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Ideas, Authority, Substitutes

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Issues, People

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• I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

  St. Vincent

  Girl, Dirty, Mean

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• The insolence of wealth will creep out.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wealth, Creeps, Insolence

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 316 (18 April 1778)

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• There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised.

  Rachel Cusk

  Art, Writing, Reality

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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