#revere

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West. ↗

— Viktor Yushchenko

#citizens #east #must #once #respected

Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest. ↗

— Saul D. Alinsky

#dogma #irreverence #life

The ethics of reverence for life makes no distinction between higher and lower, more precious and less precious lives. It has good reasons for this omission. For what are we doing, when we establish hard and fast gradations in value between living organisms, but judging them in relation to ourselves, by whether they seem to stand closer to us or farther from us. This is a wholly subjective standard. How can we know what importance other living organisms have in themselves and in terms of the universe? ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#life

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. ↗

— Socrates

#everywhere #extension #fear #presumably #reverence

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling! ↗

— Tori Spelling

#i #i am #now #officially #ordained

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#authors #competition #dead #envy #living

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? ↗

— William O. Douglas

#awe #been #bow #expected #represent

Heads are so overdressed in their natural state, it is offensive not to wear a hat to cover them up. The policy of removing hats in public buildings is extremely irreverent. We should just have guillotines at the door instead and spare everyone the awkwardness of having to look each other in the brow. ↗

— Bauvard

#guillotine #hats #heads #humor #irreverent

Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#respect #responsibility #reverence #teach #attitude