Famous Quotes

"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."

Edward Gibbon 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 Edward Gibbon

• "I was never less alone than when by myself."

• "Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

• "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

• "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

• "Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."