The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

When 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.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

In 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.‘

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

It is right to give every man his due.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

My 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.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I 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.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

I 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.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

To 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.

I 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.

God 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.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

I 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.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

We 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.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.