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Quotes about Respect

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.
— Dorothy Sayers
It was at this point that Lord Peter was apotheosed from the state of Quite Decent Uncle to that of Glorified Uncle.
— Dorothy Sayers
As we cannot afford to squander our natural resources of minerals, food, and beauty, so we cannot afford to discard any human resources of brains, skills, and initiative, even though it is women who possess them...a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual.
— Dorothy Sayers
Every man should be content to mind his own business.
— Aesop
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
— Desmond Tutu
I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.
— Joyce Banda
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
— Jennifer Lopez
My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.
— John Piper
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
— Maya Angelou
Nothing in the world like the spark between men and women. What a marvelous and mysterious combination. Two sides of the same coin, you know. We both want the same thing, to give and receive love, to be cared for, respected. We just come at it from a different point of view.
— Rachel Hauck
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson