Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
“It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.