“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.”
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“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”
“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.”
“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”
“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”
“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.”
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
“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.”
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.”
“Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.”
“It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.”
“One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”
“I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.”
“The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.”
“I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.”
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”