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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn on religion

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
Alfred Russel Wallace on religion

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr. on respect

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein on respect

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein on respect

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X on respect

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln on respect

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson on respect

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu on respect

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain on respect

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe on respect

Respect is what we owe love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey on respect

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur on respect

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood on respect

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill on respect

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche on respect

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus on respect

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon on respect

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on respect

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on respect