These disrespect quotes will inspire you. Disrespect is to lack special regard or respect for or lack of respect or courtesy.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging disrespect quotes, disrespect sayings, and disrespect proverbs.
Best Disrespect Quotes
- “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you, and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” ~ Will Smith
- “You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.” ~ Red Haircrow
- “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky , Respect disrespect quotes
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“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” ~ Billy Graham
- “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” ~ Aristophanes
- “If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody’s supposed to respect you?” ~ Aretha Franklin
- “If Somebody disrespects me they will pay for it. I promise” ~ Anderson Silva
- “No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.” ~ Michael Caine
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“A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.” ~ Bill Watterson
- “Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.” ~ Cuba Gooding, Jr.
- “Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.” ~ Paulo Freire
- “There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.” ~ Nikki Giovanni , Life disrespect quotes
- “Don’t accept less than what it is that you know that you want. Don’t allow someone to be a jerk. Don’t allow someone to disrespect you. Listen to the bigger voice in your head telling you that you deserve the best, whatever that is whatever that is you decide you like for yourself. It may differ from what I like or what is ideal for me. But the bottom line is to never accept less than what you know you deserve.” ~ Kimora Lee Simmons
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“Men are respectable only as they respect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We’re all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.” ~ Angie Stone
- “Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.” ~ Leon Trotsky
- “I was taught that justice is a right that every American should have. Also justice should be the goal of every American. I think that’s what makes this country. To me, justice means the innocent should be found innocent. It means that those who do wrong should get their due punishment. Ultimately, it means fair treatment. So a call for justice shouldn’t offend or disrespect anybody. A call for justice shouldn’t warrant an apology.” ~ Andrew Hawkins
- “Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.” ~ David Rockefeller
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“Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.” ~ Fawad Afzal Khan
- “Familiarity breeds contempt.” ~ Aesop
- “I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” ~ Edward Gibbon
- “True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.” ~ Mark Twain
- “When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God” ~ Shri Radhe Maa
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“I’ve got a good man. He takes care of me. I don’t have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass… disrespect him and you’ve got a problem.” ~ Whitney Houston
- “I don’t see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I’m very aware that I don’t like to disrespect people too much.” ~ Tracey Ullman
- “The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs.” ~ Hugo Black
- “The essence of American racism is disrespect.” ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.” ~ Ryne Sandberg
- “Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?” ~ Gary Yourofsky
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“I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
- “Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people… contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.” ~ Socrates
- “Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” ~ Cesar Chavez
- “What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?” ~ Socrates
- “Men swagger around calling themselves “cattlemen” but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.” ~ Joel Salatin
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“I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That’s like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.” ~ Afrika Bambaataa
- “I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.” ~ Shane Warne
- “I got to watch some of Hillary Clinton’s debates against Barack Obama. She treated him with terrible disrespect.” ~ Donald Trump
- “As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.” ~ Larry Bird
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“Also in Norah Jones, now there’s a voice that sounds and I don’t mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It’s just an exciting time.” ~ Gerry Beckley
- “At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on a trait that is wholly distinct from their ideas, their carriage and their conduct.” ~ Dessa Darling
- “If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.” ~ Marcus Garvey
- “My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of ‘the most ethical administration in history’.” ~ Michael Reagan
- “I’m not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this – I’m not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. – It’s like, when you’re telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?” ~ Chad Hugo
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“I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.” ~ Wilfrid Laurier
- “Radley rolled his eyes. He actually rolled his eyes at my father. Alpha of the south-central territory and head of the Territorial Council. Sure, I did that all the time but I’d also peed on his lap when I was two. No one else got away with such disrespect toward an Alpha, which meant Radley either didn’t know who my father was, or didn’t care” ~ Rachel Vincent
- “Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror … a dog destroys the service completely.” ~ Virginia Woolf
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“I mean no disrespect to anything I did before.” ~ Chris Rock
- “If you start to disrespect the character you’re playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it’s all technique. It’s like watching a juggler – you can be impressed by it, but it’s not going to touch you in any way.” ~ Steve Coogan
- “No disrespect to anyone. I just didn’t know where the flag was.” ~ Ray Emery
- “You must learn to respect,” Papa said. But I do not respect her,” I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. “Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.” ~ Lawrence Hill
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“Contempt mates well with pity.” ~ Gloria Naylor
- “I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they’re older and ready to settle down?” ~ Angelina Jolie
- “Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.” ~ Alain de Botton
- “No one to blame because there is no one other than you. Nothing to disrespect because there is nothing other than you.” ~ Amit Ray
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“Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect, and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?” ~ Dalai Lama
- “I think it’s a sacrifice that you have to make, because you lay yourself open for people to accuse and disrespect you. But it’s worth it. It’s worth it because not too many people are too honest anymore.” ~ Ronnie Radke
