Respect Quotes - Page 29

• I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

  John Philip Sousa

  Believe, Cities, World

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• We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

  Y. C. James Yen

  People, Community, Growth

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• I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Player, Games

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• I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Hair, Gray, Gray Hair

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• Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

  Adam Rich

  Thinking, Feel Good, Musician

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• It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Nature, Children, Animal

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• Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists deny that mathematics, except as a shorthand or expository device, can be applied to economic reasoning. There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications.

  James R Newman

  Powerful, Communication, Math

  "The World of Mathematics".

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• Never yawn in front of a lady.

  Frank Sinatra

  Fronts

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• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  Lusia Strus

  Believe, Character, Play

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• What a delight it is to respect people!

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Delight, Respect People

  "Note-Book of Anton Chekhov". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Irreverence, Deities

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.190, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

  Thomas Cochrane

  Order, Tolerance, Open Minded

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• Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

  Adam Rich

  Giving, Labels, Records

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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

  Men, America, People

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.2

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• Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

  Evita Peron

  Men, Individual, Aids

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• Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thinking, Monkeys, Dirt

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 253), 1994.

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• I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

  Luther Allison

  Opportunity, Input, Chance

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• You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Thinking, Self, Looks

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• Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Freedom, Liberty, Harmony

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• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  Ernest Gaines

  Motivational, Integrity, Gay

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• The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Tolerance, Speech

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• You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Honesty, Government

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• If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Moving, Commitment, Responsibility

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men are born equal but they are also born different.

  Erich Fromm

  Equality, Men, Diversity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

  Hideki Tojo

  War, Justice For All, Views

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