#2,903

The people today does not feel free except when it feels authorized to respect nothing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 464

#1,436

Nothing deserves more respect than the unfortunate people that has to beg, but nothing deserves less respect than the absurd drugs for which it clamors to remedy its misfortune.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 243

#1,164

Mutual disrespect quickly turns friendship or love between plebeian souls into a mere bilateral contract for rudeness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 205

#1,163

The frankness of someone who does not respect himself turns into simple shamelessness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 205

#1,033

Treating an inferior with respect and affection is the classic syndrome of the reactionary psychosis.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 184

#763

We should respect the eminent individual whom the people respect, even when he does not deserve it, in order not to disrespect the notion of respect.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 138

#644

Good manners, in the end, are nothing but the way in which respect is expressed.
Since respect, in its turn, is a feeling inspired by the presence of an admitted superior, wherever hierarchies are absent—real or fictitious, but revered—good manners die out.
Rudeness is a democratic product.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 119

#599

Vulgarity consists as much in disrespecting what deserves respect as in respecting what does not deserve it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 112

#568

The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships.
Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 107

#157

Nobody is completely lacking in qualities able to arouse our respect, our admiration, or our envy.
Whoever might appear unable to give us an example has been carelessly observed.