America wants its respect.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.