It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned. — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Courts have paid a lot of deference to post-secondary institutions if they've done their work properly. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but,… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto… — George Will Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune;It is a certain manner that distinguishes us, and which seems… — La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
Since the 1960s, when America finally became fully accountable for its past, deference toward all groups with any claim to past or… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the… — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people… — Angelo Scola Copy Share Image
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![“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” quote by Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3f4/ouida-3651_avarice_on-christianity-its-lip-service-and-its_1641749.png)
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