Quotes about Respect
Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
With the tears a Land hath shed Their graves should ever be green.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.
- Thomas Becket
In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.
- Joe Biden
Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.
- Alveda King
Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.
- Anne Hutchinson
Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
- Joel Osteen
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
- Billy Sunday
people say, "I didn't ask to be born," I think we did, and that's why we're here. We are here, and we have to do something nurturing that we respect before we go. We must. It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good.
- Nikki Giovanni
We should certainly honor the principle that all people are equal in God's sight and entitled to equal protection of the laws as well as fair, courteous, and respectful treatment. But there is no moral imperative that we adopt the notion that all belief systems are equally true. There is a moral imperative that we do not.
- Norman Geisler
I confess to your Charity that I have learned to yield this respect and honour only to the canonical books of Scripture: of these alone do I most firmly believe that the authors were completely free from error. And if in these writings I am perplexed by anything which appears to me opposed to truth, I do not hesitate to suppose that either the manuscript is faulty, or the translator has not caught the meaning of what was said, or I myself have failed to understand it (Ibid., 82.1.3).
- Norman Geisler