There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser. — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability. — Max Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York… Everything there disappoints me but the crowd;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also? — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I will continue doing films till my last breathe and will regain my respectability in the industry. — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability. — Susan Moody Copy Share Image
At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
'Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives. — Jeffrey Montgomery Copy Share Image
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image