Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
Noam ChomskyPeople who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James BaldwinThe worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
Herbert HooverI remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.
Taylor SwiftConformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. KennedyWe are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
Vivienne WestwoodThe fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya AngelouIn South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.
Alice WalkerThere is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother TeresaWe do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
Winston ChurchillI don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.
Taylor SwiftI always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.
Muhammad AliI certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIt is hard to be an individual in Japan.
Haruki MurakamiGod tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.
Dolly PartonTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf we are not free, no one will respect us.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamA good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
ChanakyaTeach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William ShakespearePhysical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
Paulo CoelhoHonoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.
Russell M. NelsonYoung men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry AdamsIntellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
Noam ChomskyA flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGo up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich NietzscheI deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Dan QuayleWe’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.
Richard BransonBears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
Karl LagerfeldUnderstand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.
Robert GreeneWhen I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.
Taylor SwiftHonor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur SchopenhauerI respect Soulja Boy.
Nipsey HussleWe forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur SchopenhauerWith all due respect, I am against dumb.
John KennedyI’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.
Mr. TNature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon HillTo be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James BaldwinThere is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand RussellFortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.
Michelle ObamaPeace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
Herbert HooverAmerica’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.
Barack ObamaEducation is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
ChanakyaI’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.
Beyonce KnowlesI will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma GandhiIt is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark TwainIf the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.
Jordan PetersonI never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas JeffersonGood manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWhen you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.
Wayne DyerMy father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘
Joe BidenThe greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David ThoreauWe must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. MenckenStop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.
Dolly PartonWhen you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Dalai LamaThe bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich NietzscheTalk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
Taylor SwiftEvery utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?
Margaret AtwoodI love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
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