Famous Quotes

"One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family."

Paul Harris 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 Paul Harris

• "One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family."

• "Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall."

• "In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor."

• "The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."

• "To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance."