If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Thomas SowellWe are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
AristotleIf I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. ThompsonIf I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.
Michelle ObamaNature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon HillAmerica is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham BellI’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
Hunter S. ThompsonI don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
Herbert HooverIf you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.
Will RogersEditor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert HubbardIf you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston ChurchillGod gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.
Clint EastwoodGo up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich NietzscheI’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.
Anthony BourdainI think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIf we are not free, no one will respect us.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
Noam ChomskyMoral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Stephen CoveyWe don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
Taylor SwiftI hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
Queen Elizabeth IIEveryone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert EinsteinI’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. TThe press is the enemy.
Richard M. NixonA free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert CamusI think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.
John KennedySometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
Pope FrancisGood breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark TwainAmong physicists, I’m respected I hope.
Stephen HawkingI believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.
Joel OsteenThe notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.
Anthony BourdainTo all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.
Bad BunnyWell, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.
John KennedyGod tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.
Dolly PartonWhen you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
Jackie ChanTeach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William ShakespeareFeeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
Lana Del ReyEducation is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
ChanakyaAlways make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.
Robert GreeneBears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
Karl LagerfeldA 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 GoethePeace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
Herbert HooverIn America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar WildeWhen I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
Taylor SwiftMy goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.
Kanye WestI continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
Alice WalkerHow do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
John C. MaxwellI will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGood manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I’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 believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.
BonoI 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 AliBe polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas JeffersonIn hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘
J. ColeTreating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel JohnsonThe people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
Fidel CastroThere 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 RussellTradition 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. ChestertonAs social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.
Robert GreeneWe 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. Mencken