Quotes on Respect

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.