Respected

Famous quotes containing the word respected:

“But what’s the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“The Americans are violently oral.... That’s why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all—isn’t respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor in depth.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)