Quotations on / about respect

With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.

(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 167, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Captain, down where I come from we dearly love our whiskey, but we don't drink with a man unless we respect him.

(James Poe, U.S. screenwriter, and Based On Play. Robert Aldrich. Sergeant Tolliver (Buddy Ebsen), Attack! Sergeant to cowardly commanding officer who offered him a drink (1956).)
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It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, April 10, 1853, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 218, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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While with us the relation of adults to children (like that of the husband to the wife) is from the sociological point of view very much like that of master and servant, in America youth enjoys much more extensive rights. The result may often be regarded by the European as a lack of respect, disobedience, and libertinism, but it is not regarded in America, since the adult does not ask for respect and subordination.

(Richard Muller-Freienfels (1882-?), German psychologist. Mysteries of the Soul, Knopf (1929).)
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

(Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Policeman, in The Man Who Was Thursday, ch. 4 (1908).)
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To the degree that respect for professors ... has risen in our society, respect for writers has fallen. Today the professorial intellect has achieved its highest public standing since the world began, while writers have come to be called "men of letters," by which is meant people who are prevented by some obscure infirmity from becoming competent journalists.

(Robert Musil (1880-1942), Austrian author. Sketch of What the Writer Knows, essay published in 1918, Robert Musil: Precision and Soul. Essays and Addresses, p. 61, ed. and trans. by Burton Pike and David S. Luft, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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In respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but
in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.

(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Touchstone, in As You Like It, act 3, sc. 2, l. 17-9. On life in the forest of Arden as contrasted with life at court.)
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

(Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), French theater producer, actor, theorist. letter, Feb. 10, 1935, to André Gide. Repr. in Selected Writings, pt. 24, ed. Susan Sontag (1976).)
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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

(June Jordan (b. 1939), U.S. poet, civil rights activist. Address, 1978, to the Black Writers' Conference, Howard University. "Where Is the Love?" Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (1989).)
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rules of reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Cannibals," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 31, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).)
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