Quotes About Dignity

Gun-carrying men are not just motivated by crime and insecurity but also by a loss of American values, a loss of masculine dignity, and a loss of confidence in the state.

Yovanovitch's testimony was an act of tremendous honor and importance.

The cost of government control is human liberty, prosperity, and dignity.

The progress of the last 500 years shows us precisely what the good ideas are: social harmony, human rights, the aspiration of universal dignity, the conviction that we can work together in mutual advantage, the market economy as a means of peace and prosperity, and, above all else, the beauty and magnificence of the idea of liberty itself.

Weakness is not a characteristic you want to share with the world

Stand up there tomorrow morning and be proud of your humiliation.

I'm going to bed tonight grateful for warmth, an advantage so expected it barely registers. (…) I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

May we show love in big and small ways, and may that love reach people accustomed to being shamed or ignored.

A homeless man clarified this once: "You know? We've lost so many things: dignity, security, our marriages, our jobs. But one thing we all miss is kids." A tighter safety net exists around homeless children; society won't stand for their vagrancy so they are whisked into foster care leaving parents on the streets. "But you guys always bring your kids down here, and it makes us happy. It's a bright spot in our dark lives.

Each person has this choice to make about how to live with the past, this dignity, this inviolable right.

I'm not a bloodhound, your lordships." "Woof, woof," Cameron said, giving Fellows an evil grin. "Good dog.

I will try not to disgrace you." "It will be better if you seek to please me.

The context needs to be that the goal is a healthy mom. Because mothers never make decisions without thinking about that healthy baby. And to suggest otherwise is insulting and degrading and disrespectful.

Sir, no amount of money, no matter how vast, could induce me to stroll, perambulate, promenade, or engage in any form of locomotion with you whatsoever. Good evening.

Go round cringing like a dog, Matt," he said, "and folks will treat you like one. Stand up like a man, and they'll treat you like a man." That was fine for Weaver, but I wondered sometimes, How exactly do you stand up like a man when you're a girl?

Nisam se nimalo sramio svojih poslova jer shva?am ono što o?ito gotovo nitko drugi ne razumije: da je vrlo mala razlika izme?u posla u visokoj zelenoj staklenoj zgradi na Aveniji Park i skupljanja sme?a u parku, tako mala da jedva da i postoji osim u ljudskoj mašti. Zapravo, možda je uop?e i nema.

The starving, the unwanted old and unborn, the criminal, those of wrong color, ideology, sex, nation, class—whatever category renders a person least in our minds—bear the face of Jesus.

Don't be sorry, Ms. Grambs. Be worthy of it.

Some people weren't worth the breath it took to shoot them down.

The kind of man who would take a woman—he's no man at all.

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar .

He had been amused, and sometimes stimulated, and once or twice rather attracted, but he had never been stirred as this honest, laughing Virginia girl had stirred him, with her level green gaze and her odd little dignity, and her sweet reposefulness which was just her breeding.

Don Benicio no se atrevía ni a respirar, hasta que poco a poco fue convirtiéndose en un sumiso, en un calzonazos, y se demostró una vez más que el matrimonio es incompatible con la dignidad del hombre.