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.
The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
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