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"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

Albert Einstein on Respect

More quotes about Respect

• "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

• "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

  Malcolm X on Respect

• "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

  Abraham Lincoln on Respect

More quotes by Albert Einstein

• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

• "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

• "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."

• "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age."

• "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."