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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
I hate victims who respect their executioners. Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Sequestres d’Altona, 1960
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom. John Gray
The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. Noam Chomsky
One of the good things about the United States that I like is they don’t have any respect for intellectuals. Paris is the opposite. Noam Chomsky, Omar Kamel podcast #1, Youtube 2023
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H L Mencken, US editor, 1880-1956
There are two words that have become rather creepy in the last two years, and one is respect ... The other is offence. Stephen Fry, in conversation with Christopher Hitchens
Religion has become accustomed to a level of respect that is not accorded to any other belief system. Richard Dawkins, interview BBC Hardtalk
A widespread assumption, which nearly everybody in our society accepts – the non-religious included – is that religious faith is especially vulnerable to offence and should be protected by an abnormally thick wall of respect, in a different class from the respect that any human being should pay to any other. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion p20
We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect. A N Wilson, Against Religion
There is no other way for securing yourself against flatteries except that men understand that they do not offend you by telling you the truth; but when everybody can tell you the truth, you fail to get respect. Niccolo Machiavelli
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim – so modestly and so humbly – to possess. It is time to withdraw our ‘respect’ from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world. Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Fed up of being told, Well faith should be respected. Why should it be? Christopher Hitchens, interview Divine Impulses
People who harbour strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person’s faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next. Sam Harris
You have too much respect upon the world,
They lose it that do buy it with much care. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice I i 74-75, Graziano
’Tis worse than murder,
To do upon respect such violent outrage. William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear II ii 202-203, Lear
Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor. Homer, The Odyssey IX i 338
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Show that man the respect he deserves. The Sopranos s3e7: Second Opinion, Tony to surgeon, HBO 2001
You know, Michael, now that you’re so respectable I think you’re more dangerous than you ever were. The Godfather III 1990 starring Al Pacino & Andy Garcia & Diane Keaton & Talia Shire & Sofia Coppola & George Hamilton & Bridget Fonda et al, director Francis Ford Coppola, Kate
Respect: respect for one’s elders shows character. Because you are a character doesn’t mean that you have character. Pulp Fiction 1994 ***** starring Uma Thurman & John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson & Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer & Maria de Medeiros & Ving Rhames & Eric Stoltz & Rosanna Arquette & Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken et al, director Quentin Tarantino, Wolf
Respect is the ultimate currency. Inside Man 2006 starring Denzel Washington & Clive Owen & Jodie Foster & Christopher Plummer & Willem Dafoe & Chiwetel Ejiofor & Carlos Andres Gomez & Kim Director & James Ransone et al, director Spike Lee, Dalton’s currency
I have respect for beer. Russell Crowe
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. Leviticus 26:9
Neither doth God respect any person. II Samuel 14:14
To have respect of persons is not good: for a piece of bread that man will transgress. Proverbs 28:21
God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34
For there is no respect of persons with God. Romans 2:11
To me we must learn to spell the word Respect. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellow countrymen. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. Jesse Owens
I have no respect for religion, government, banking and especially educational institutions. Because I know who finances these organisations. I know where the money comes from. Jordan Maxwell, lecture Project Camelot Conference September 2009
America wants its respect. Tupac Shakur
We bow down before no man. Two Spartans before Persian king, cited Herodotus, ‘Histories’
But once you’re in here – inside – away from those who you pay to protect you, well then you’re just like everyone else. And you are old now; no-one cares about you any more. The world doesn’t give a flying fuck about knowledge. About the old way. About how things used to be. How they should be. The world has moved forward. But you keep hanging on to the good old days when respect meant something. We Still Steal the Old Way 2017 starring Patrick Bergin & Lysette Anthony & Julian Glover & Tanya Franks & Ian Ogilvy & Billy Murray & Nicky Henson & Vas Blackwood & Cristian Solimeno & Deborah Moore & Kieth-Lee Castle et al, director Sacha Bennett, opening scene, governor’s monologue
This is the day we replace Billy Kimber. This is the day we become respectable. Peaky Blinders s1e6, Tommy at family meeting, BBC 2013
You will address me as Colonel. I did not do four tours of duty in the Gulf to be disrespected by some hairy-ass bowling ball. Trailer Park Boys s9e7: Piss, Colonel to Randy
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect. George Sand, Indiana
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no-one idolized. Albert Einstein