“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.”

“The reason for the existence of a religion, from one point of view at least, is to be found precisely in those things wherein it differs from other religions.”

Frithjof Schuon book The Transcendent Unity of Religions

“Respect for human dignity is a foundation for friendship, happiness, and the meaning of life.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth, round which the Sun, the Moon, and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity, and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre.”

John Dee (1527–1608) English mathematican, astrologer and antiquary

“A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.”

Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economics laureate

“I should like friendship with you… and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Weighing the sacrifices of the last war, we want to be true friends of a peace which will at last heal the wounds from which all have suffered.”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

“Let us respect each other and avoid causing unnecessary hurt to those with beliefs and faiths different from ours.”

Laisenia Qarase (1941) Prime Minister of Fiji