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Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Respect, Genius

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

John Keats | Respect

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Malcolm X – Mankind, Respect

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Friedrich Nietzsche – Respect, Death

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Voltaire – Respect, Truth

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Samuel Johnson – Respect

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt – Secret, Respect

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Maya Angelou – Respect, Love

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

Cicero – Respect

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

Marcus Tulius Cicero – Respect

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

Marcus Tulius Cicero – Foolishness, Respect

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel

Irwin Federman – Love, Respect

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington – Respect

It destroys one’s nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli – Respect



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