“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”
Respect is earned, not demanded — and these quotes explain why. This collection covers dignity, mutual regard, self-respect, and the way treating people well tends to come back around, even when it takes a while.
“Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.”
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”
“Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.”
“Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.”
“A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.”
“By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.”
“I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.”
“My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.”
“I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.”
“If we are not free, no one will respect us.”
“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”
“Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.”
“Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.”
“Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.”
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
“I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”