Quotes on Respect

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Being gay is not something that defines me. What defines me is what my mom always taught me: to treat everyone with respect, to always be a hard worker, and to be kind.

When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.

Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.

I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.

We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues.

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.