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"I think Jews are the smartest people in the world"
Rob Reiner, Director
"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"Criticize the act, not the person"
Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman
"One man's style must not be the rule of another's"
Jane Austen, Writer
"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness"
Josh Billings, Comedian
"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to"
Alice Walker, Author
"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse"
John Locke, Philosopher
"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
"I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody"
Ziggy Marley, Musician
"Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person"
Usain Bolt, Athlete
"We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences"
Jane Elliot, Actress
"One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself"
Edgar Watson Howe, Editor
"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners"
Laurence Sterne, Novelist
"If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening"
Marge Piercy, Writer
"We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand"
Mercedes Ruehl, Actress
"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior"
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist
"We need to, in this country, begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances"
Leah Ward Sears, Judge
"Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent"
Sextus Propertius, Poet
"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance"
Frank Knox, Public Servant
"Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone, from a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition, but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner"
Ravi Shankar, Musician
"Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes"
Tori Amos, Musician
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
Confucius, Philosopher
"Must! Is 'must' a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone"
Billy Graham, Clergyman
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me"
Frederick Douglass, Author
"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive"
Dale Carnegie, Writer
"He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing"
Marilyn Monroe, Actress
"I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are"
Joan Rivers, Comedian
"Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men"
Jane Addams, Activist
"When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers"
Herodotus, Historian
"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to"
Denis Diderot, Editor
"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are"
John W. Gardner, Educator
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