“The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.”

“Between the demand to be clear, and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“Respect is for those who deserve it, not for those who demand it.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.”

Tucker Max I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

“Revenge is more wild, less calculated… deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)”

Vince Flynn (1966–2013) American writer of fiction

“Anyone who doesn't not have any form of respect doesn't deserve any form of consideration.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“The demand from [identity politics] is that we should respect not just the person qua person but also his or her beliefs. It’s a demand that undermines individual autonomy, both by constraining the right of people to criticise others’ beliefs and by insisting that individuals who hold those beliefs are too weak or vulnerable to stand up to criticism, satire or abuse. Far from according them respect, the politics of identity treats people less as autonomous beings than as vulnerable victims needing special protection.”

Kenan Malik (1960) English writer, lecturer and broadcaster

“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Revolutions have nowhere ended, and least of all in ROme, without demanding a certain number of victims, who under forms more or less borrowed from justice atone fro the fault of defeat as though it were a crime.”

Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer

“I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher