Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
We need a toughness. We need strength. We're not respected, as a nation anymore. We don't have that level of respect that we need. And if we don't get it back fast, we're just going to go weaker, weaker and just disintegrate.
Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.
I was a basket case, you know? When I got mad, I threw clubs, you know? And if things weren't going well, I would walk off a course. I think I lost a little bit of respect, but hopefully I've gained that back.
I lost all respect for angstroms.
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
