Quotes about Respect

Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us.

May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.

When one no longer knows what one owes oneself and others, where the sense for human quality and the strength to respect boundaries cease to exist, chaos is at the door. When for the sake of material comfort one tolerates impudence, one has already surrendered, there the floods of chaos have been permitted to burst the dam at the place where it was to be defended, and one becomes guilty of all that follows.

God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in his image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others.

When we love somebody, whether it be a friend, a parent, a child, whether it be conjugal love or neighborly love, the beloved person always stands before us as something precious and noble in himself.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.