Quotes About Dignity

We don't need more bullying, and I'm tired of it.

I don't want to look like a bum.

I don't want to be a burden on anybody.

I don't want to be a burden to anyone.

You should never bury someone to forward your own personal interest. And I would never do that to anyone else on the planet.

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

No one's ever come up and say 'You suck' to my face. I don't think anyone would ever do that.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

When values disappear, the first people to suffer are women because people start losing their respect for women.

You can't stigmatize people, you can't cut away people you admire just because they suffer AIDS. It's just not right.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

I don't persuade to suicide.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.

Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits - you can only see their eyes.

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.