Top 43 Respect Demand Quotes
#1. Politicians are much like aging authors and older women. The dangerous phase in their lives is when they are no longer content with the respect of friends but demand the adulation of an audience.
Michael Dobbs
#2. I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
Ahmed Chalabi
#3. Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.
James Rozoff
#4. Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.
Alan Keyes
#5. People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#6. You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#7. Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he'll never truly command it. I am your daughter, not your horse, sir." I
Kerri Maniscalco
#8. Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.
Tucker Max
#9. A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
Aldo Leopold
#10. Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.
John Wooden
#11. Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Honore De Balzac
#12. I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.
Frank Herbert
#13. Family are people who never earn your respect or love but demand it nevertheless.
Greg Keyes
#14. Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.
Dean Koontz
#16. I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.
Rich Robinson
#17. The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
Robert A. Heinlein
#18. The self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#19. I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
Ben Lindsey
#20. I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.
George M. Gilbert
#21. I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.
Johnny Carson
#22. I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
Rachel Roy
#23. All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays ... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
Jesse Ventura
#24. I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.
Steve Toltz
#25. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.
Wafa Sultan
#26. It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.
Big Pun
#27. Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
Anthony Giddens
#28. It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.
Shaquille O'Neal
#29. Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.
Emil Cioran
#30. What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
Cesar Chavez
#31. You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
Mary J. Blige
#32. I think that's the coolest thing about our fans, they not only respect, but they demand, excellence from our guys.
Adam Cole
#35. The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
Isabel Allende
#36. Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#37. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
Tecumseh
#38. I'm not totally innocent, and I do date. But as a young woman, I also demand respect.
Ciara
#39. In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining ... . We demand this fraud be stopped.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#40. Stop making excuses for people treating you like shit. Demand respect and you'll get it.
S. Usher Evans
#41. Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.
Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.
Angelica Hopes
#42. The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
Franz Grillparzer
#43. I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.
Juan Ponce Enrile
