A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. – Charlotte Bronte
Respect is love in plain clothes. – Frankie Byrne
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. – Eldridge Cleaver
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. – Quentin Crisp
Men are respectable only as they respect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. – Euripides
I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse –I will not retreat a single inch –and I will be heard! – William Lloyd Garrison
The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude. – Arnold Glasgow
