“Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.”
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“People are giving me more respect.”
“Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.”
“Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.”
“The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.”
“What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.”
“I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.”
“I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.”
“I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.”
“A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
“The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.”
“Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.”
“I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
“Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.”
“Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.”
“Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.”
“I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.”
“There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.”
“I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.”
“I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.”
“We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.”
“Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.”
“A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.”
“This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”