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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you cant deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. – Denis Diderot

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. – Denis Diderot

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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. – Albert Schweitzer

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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. – Samuel Johnson

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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. – Horace

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