Andrew Solomon Quotes

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

We are all deserving of love.

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

Respect the burden.

My work has taught me to pay great respects towards human beings.

I have respect for everybody.

The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and their rights? The more you learn about a culture or a certain identity, it's hard to not feel empathy.

I think I am like anyone else. I respect other people and, of course, I expect that it works the other way around.

Every person has to be respected.

As I always say, you don't have to love me, but you have to respect that I'm here.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate.

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.