A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
Joseph Conrad
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I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly. -
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. -
Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist. -
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so. -
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
More quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
- Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.