“When you hold yourself back, you incur not anger but a kind of respect. You instantly seem powerful because you make yourself un-graspable, rather than succumbing to the group, or to the relationship, as most people do. As your reputation for independence grows, more and more people will come to desire you, wanting to be the one who gets you to commit. The moment you commit, the magic is gone. You become like everyone else. People will try all kinds of underhanded methods to get you to commit.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“Who are you talking to, McGuire? Because you couldn't be talking to me. Not in that tone.”
Source: The Eternity Code
“If he doesn't respect his mama, love he ain't gonna respect you.”
Source: My Faith Saved Me
“You must learn to respect the value of patience.”
Source: Temple Of Destiny
“Of an inanimate being, like a table, we say “What is it?” And we answer Dopwen yewe. Table it is. But of apple, we must say, “Who is that being?” And reply Mshimin yawe. Apple that being is.
Yawe— the animate to be. I am, you are, s/he is. To speak of those possessed with life and spirit we must say yawe. By what linguistic confluence do Yahweh of the Old Testament and yawe of the New World both fall from the mouths of the reverent Isn’t this just what it means, to be, to have the breath of life within, to be the offspring of creation The language reminds us, in every sentence, of our kinship with all of the animate world.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Democracy is not merely a form of Government...It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen.”
Source: Annihilation of Caste
“Distance is one of the most beautiful forms of respect”
“You’re not supposed to agree with everything I say. It’s okay to disagree. It doesn’t make you right and me wrong, and it certainly doesn’t make me right and you wrong. It’s just opinion. So it’s not whether you agree with my opinions or not that matter. What matters is that you respect them. And conversely that I respect your opinions. You can disagree with me, you can argue with me, and you can be different from me, but don’t ever try and shut me up.”
Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“I am Sudan. And I do not beg.
I carry warriors in my legs.
I walk like a prophecy. I light like a flame.
I was never small, just wrongly named.
In every land, I stand tall.
You cannot exile what built it all.”
Source: Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience