Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Respect Quotes, Real Quotes

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

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

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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

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Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.

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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

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The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

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A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

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