"I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised." ― Christopher Hitchens Topic(s): Respect More From Christopher Hitchens "‘WASP’ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not." "When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‘I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,’ and so forth, I switch off quite early." "Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be." More In Respect "I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform."― Erykah Badu "And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim."― Amos Oz "While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who’s out there just for the experience."― Craig Kelly