Quotes about Respect

it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight!

For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

We will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish.

How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.

The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests.

Recently it has been decided, grudgingly, that dark skin or lameness may not be entirely one's fault, but one still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed.

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

By accepting people you're not condoning their weakness or agreeing with their opinion; you're simply affirming their intrinsic worth.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.