Respect Quotes - Page 30

• Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

  L. Neil Smith

  Authority, Has Beens

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.295, Macmillan

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• Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Country, Expression, Intellectual

  "Understanding Juan Goytisolo". Book by Randolph D. Pope, 1995.

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• The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

  John Henninger Reagan

  Character, Rights, Government

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• I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

  Lili Taylor

  Jobs, Acting, Actors

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• But respect yourself most of all.

  Pythagoras

  Respect Yourself

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• Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Kindness, Character, Caring

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• When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Should, Feels, Asks

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• Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Speak, Silent, Should

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• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Long, Together

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• What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it &#Array; so we can help prevent it.

  Bryan Singer

  Mean, Evil, Understanding

  "Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer". www.ign.com. December 9, 2002.

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  The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Success, Witty

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• the more thoughtful you are of others, the more thoughtful they will be of you. The more you respect them, the more you will win their respect.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  Kindness, Thoughtful, Winning

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• letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

  Luce Irigaray

  Acceptance, Important, Tradition

  Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

  Angelo Scola

  Objectivity, Law, People

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• It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

  Hermann Hesse

  Motivational, Honor, Meaning Of Life

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Mean, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Fanny's First Play”, p.85, 1st World Publishing

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• disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

  Charlotte Armstrong

  Horse, Kings, Way

  Charlotte Armstrong (2018). “The Dream Walker”, p.110, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hands, People, Sticks

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “The Complete Lewis Carroll Collection (Illustrated)”, p.389, Tyché

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• Unpaid work never commands respect.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  Work, Wages, Command

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• In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

  Peter Singer

  Unique, Thinking, President

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• [Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

  John Gunther

  New York, Cities, Chicago

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• Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

  Sydney Smith

  Love, Shadow, Quality

  "Sermons".

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• Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Machines, Easy

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.46, Routledge

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• My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

  Karl Kraus

  Dimensions, Size, Assuming

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Humility, Imagination, Empathy

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