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Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
-Chinese Proverb
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If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.
-Proverb
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Respect starts with yourself.
-Proverb
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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
-Aesop
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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
-James Baldwin
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
-Ambrose Bierce
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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
-William Blake
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Respect the burden.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
-Charlotte Bronte
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Respect is love in plain clothes.
-Frankie Byrne
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
-Albert Camus
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
-Eldridge Cleaver
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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
-Confucius
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
-Quentin Crisp
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
-Salvador Dali
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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Men are respectable only as they respect.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
-Euripides
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
-John W. Gardner
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I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse --I will not retreat a single inch --and I will be heard!
-William Lloyd Garrison
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The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
-Arnold Glasgow
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Books about Respect
