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• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confidence, Honesty, Citizens

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Generosity, Hatred

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• I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

  Harold Ramis

  Self, Laziness, Combination

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May - November 2005.

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• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Law, Politics

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Government, Law, People

  "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.

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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

  Life Changing, Life Lesson, Heart

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.29.

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• Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.

  John F. Akers

  Trust, Integrity, Father Son

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• We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water - if very young children don't begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Children, Memories, School

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Courage, Regret

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Community, Earth

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.18, Library of America

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• Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Gratitude, Hard Work

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• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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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.

  Life, Men, Rights

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

  Romare Bearden

  Art, Mean, African American

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• We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

  Davy Crockett

  Sympathy, Balance, Injustice

  "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.

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• Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Peace, Pain, War

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. January 27, 2015.

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• If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.

  Pope Francis

  Together, Individual, Globalization

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

  Robert Towne

  Long, Ugly, Lasts

  Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.80, Grove Press

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• Self-respect knows no considerations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Consideration, Knows

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• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Moving, Ideas, People

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• There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Soldier, Three, Dignity

  "Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

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• Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

  Omar Suleiman

  Marriage, Religious, Real

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Nov 18, 2013

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• In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

  Carter Heyward

  Love, God, Honesty

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• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  John Herschel

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• Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Attention, Useless

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”

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