Quotes About Dignity

But once you allow yourself to think that there are some people, because of their race, their color, or religion, who are really not human beings you have established a justification for imposing every sort of humiliation on them.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

Who sows virtue reaps honour.

It isn't respectable to beg

There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no.

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

To speak candidly, with neither justification nor humiliation, relieves the haunting of memory and mind and becomes one way to regain our dignity and our strength.

What modesty she'd had was quickly abused; a hospital wasn't the place for privacy, of any kind.

By God, if I were twenty years younger," he thundered, "I'd drag you outside and horsewhip you!" Steven

When it comes to letting another man lay his hands on you, I have no honor," he said bluntly. She

Steven couldn't help laughing at the somber dignity of her expression. Her very primness lured him, made him want to bring out the wildcat he expected she was hiding from the world and maybe even herself.

fail a stringent code of ethics and that none of us was capable of earning a place of honor.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.