Respectable Quotes

269 quotes by 230 authors

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. — George MacDonald
It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most… — William Golding
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable. — Ntozake Shange
Beautyâ€”or the desire to be beautifulâ€”is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, â€˜Does the person who loves someone for their… — Karl Lagerfeld
Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the… — Imre Lakatos
If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help! — B R Ambedkar
I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I… — David Guetta
If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that… — Rachilde
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making… — Maurice Ashley
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth. — Paul Broca
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this… — Kurt Vonnegut
We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to… — Joseph O'Neill
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent… — Brock Chisholm
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce… — Sigmund Freud
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. — Humphrey Carpenter
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob… — Douglas Adams
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome.… — Henry Adams
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without,… — Robert Grosseteste

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