Quotes about Respect

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. / Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere.

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency

I'll be who I am and say what I feel because people who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind.