Deference Quotes

40 quotes by 38 authors

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
Great men always pay deference to greater. — Walter Savage Landor
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
People who expect deference resent mere civility. — Mason Cooley
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. — Nicolas Chamfort
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
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
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
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
Let us not live a life â€¦ that would bring regret. â€¦ It is not going to matter very much how much money you made,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
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
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
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
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. — Karl Popper
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
[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
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
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
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
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

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