Quotes About Dignity

My family is really proper.

In my normal life, I am a private person doing a proper job.

To the extent that there is anything properly identifiable as dignity in our society today, our present writers of comedy would be inclined to treat it as a proper object of ridicule.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

I am proud of my height.

We want to be proud of ourselves.

I'm a proud man.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.