Deference Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Deference.
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“Defence, not defiance.”
“Great men always pay deference to greater.”
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“...and that every hour of deference to slavery is an hour of added and deepened peril to the Union.”
“The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.”
“If your civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Great men make mistakes.”
“I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry.”
“But I have never been able to love what was not lovable or hate what was not hateful, out of deference for some general principle.”
“It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.”
“The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference.”
“Deference is the instinctive respect which we pay to the great and good — the unconscious acknowledgment of the superiority or excellence of others.”
“I respect the establishments of the Revolution, at least as much as those who are remarked for their deference to them to serve on occasion. I am sensible how much was done for liberty at the Revolution.”
“Arab world feel a sense of pride in shaking off decades of cowed passivity under dictatorships that ruled with no deference to popular wishes.”
“When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.”
“Deference to popular opinion is one great source of bad writing, and is all the more disastrous because the deference is paid to some purely hypothetical requirement.”
“...disdain of arrogance and self-righteousness, a preference for truculent independence over prudent deference and conformity - these were the feelings that shaped his outlook on life.”
“Refusing to monumentalize, disdaining the final word, precise "summing up", acknowledging their "poor power to add or detract", his words signal deference to the uncapturability of the life it mourns.”