Quotes about Respect

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. / Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere.

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency

I'll be who I am and say what I feel because people who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind.

A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will NOT have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.