Jean Rostand Quotes

Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another

When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

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

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

Like, I get along with everybody. I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

I think everybody's the same. I think we're all entitled to our space, and I like to treat everybody like that.

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

People never used to look at me twice. That was my superpower: When I met someone, I could decide whether to care about them based on whether they cared about me.

Aren't we all human? Don't we all deserve to be respected and treated equally?

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

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.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I like making fun of myself; I don't want to make fun of other people, so I don't mind doing something out of character that some people might not expect me to do.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.