Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft
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I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine. -
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. -
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Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.
More quotes by George Bancroft
- Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
- Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
- The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
- By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
- Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.