Deference Quotes
40 quotes by 38 authors
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Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long…
— Charles Dickens
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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People who expect deference resent mere civility.
— Mason Cooley
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result…
— James Madison
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The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his…
— Confucius
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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which…
— Thornton Wilder
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Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made,…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by…
— Chris Hedges
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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow,…
— Medard Boss
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If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
— Karl Popper
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Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face…
— Jane Austen
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[God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him, turn once or twice to an old…
— John Cassian
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A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference…
— Angelo Scola
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In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing…
— Jennifer Lee
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Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an…
— David Hume
Who Wrote These Deference Quotes
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