"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Youth is wasted on the young."
— Oscar Wilde

"As you grow older, you'll see white men
cheat black men every day of your life,
but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man
does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."
— Dave Barry

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth."
— Chief Seattle (Chief Seattle's Speech)

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
— H.L. Mencken

"It is better to be respected then it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever."
— John Bytheway

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."
— John F. Kennedy

"Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

"One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage."
— Robert Fulghum

"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself."
— Mark Twain

"Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting."
— Stephen R. Prothero

"Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth"
— Anne McCaffrey (Dragon Harper)

"You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect."
— Mary J. Blige

"Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"To extend religious freedom to people of all religious traditions, even though you may well disagree with their beliefs and/or practices. Having tolerance toward another religion does not require you to endorse that faith group's beliefs; it simply indicates your respect for its right to exist and for its member to hold different beliefs without being oppressed."
— www.religioustolerance.org

"Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards."
— David Mitchell (Ghostwritten)

"Should even one's enemy arrive at the doorstep, he should be attended upon with respect. A tree does not withdraw its cooling shade even from the one who has come to cut it."
— Mahabharata 12.146.5

"Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect"
— George Sand (Indiana)

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
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— Laurence Sterne

"Goddess sparkle"
— Mama B

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?"
— C.H. Hamel

"Respect & Loyalty, with them you can topple Empires, without them you have nothing."
— C.H.Hamel

"Respect is a close relative of tolerance, and both go a long way to prevent and alleviate the negative interactions between and among people. Respect was a member of each Lakota household during the free-roaming buffalo-hunting days on the northern plains."
— Joseph M. Marshall III (The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living)

""You demand respect and you'll get it. first of all, you give respect.""
— Mary J. Blige

"Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all."
— Bruce Springsteen

""One race,
Many cultures,
One place."
"
— Geoffrey M. Gluckman (Deadly Exchange)

"At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that question. A sleeper can be decoyed out of bed by the sheer beauty of dawn on the open seas. Part of my job, as I see it, is to allow that to happen. Sleepers like me need at some point to rise and take their turn on morning watch for the sake of the planet, but also for their own sake, for the enrichment of their lives. From the deserts of Namibia to the razor-backed Himalayas, there are wonderful creatures that have roamed the Earth much longer than we, creatures that not only are worthy of our respect but could teach us about ourselves."
— Diane Ackerman (The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds)

"What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported."
— Peggy Noonan (Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now)

"respect the people, who respect you unless they didn't do anything fir you!"
— Alissa Morissette

"Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you."
— Frank X Barron

"If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world."
— Zoe Weil (Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times)

"Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents."
— Zoe Weil (Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times)