Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one."
Disrespect quotes
Disrespect
121 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing."
Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people."
The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man."
Alice Miller
Psychologist, Author
"Disrespect is the weapon of the weak"
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"Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response."
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"Don't disrespect the sword marshmallow."
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"One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law."
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"Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies."
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"True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god."
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"I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform."
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"If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm."
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"Familiarity breeds contempt."
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"You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt."
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"Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary."
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"The insolence of wealth will creep out."
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"Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect."
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"Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different."
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"I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?"
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"Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them."
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"I mean no disrespect to anything I did before."
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"And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him."
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"You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect."
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"We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed."
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"Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness."
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