Quotes About Dignity

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Not coming from a film background, be it a teeny-weeny role or a big role, I have done it with a lot of dignity and fought my way through. But the only thing that kept me going is that I am the sort of person who doesn't take no for an answer. If someone rejects me, I will be out to prove that person wrong in my own way.

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

We have to learn that not everyone deserves our tears. You have to do the right thing even if someone mocks you.

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

I think we ought to provide much more dignity and respect to individuals who need some care and assistance, whether they are chronically ill or disabled or seniors, it's the right thing for this country to do.

The right thing is to look after people and women and women's rights to their own bodies.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

I had a good job, made good money, was taking good care of my kids. That club is totally legal. Maybe it's not tasteful, but it's legal. Most of the women dancing in there are single moms. That judge—he had it out for me. Maybe I should've let him buy me dinner." Noah's eyes narrowed and he glowered. "He didn't want dinner." "Yeah, that's why I said no," she said. "You

There comes a time in every life when the curtain is coming down, and when that time is present and there's no way to turn back the clock, the best answer is dignity and peace.

No one deserves cruelty of any kind. Not on their worst day." Just

Rather, they must keep their balance and stay focused on, in Havel's words, "the everyday, thankless, and never-ending struggle of human beings to live more freely, truthfully, and in quiet dignity.

Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies!"3 You may not have the strength to stand up in public and say what you really believe, but you can at least refuse to affirm what you do not believe. You may not be able to overthrow totalitarianism, but you can find within yourself and your community the means to live in the dignity of truth.

Reducing the individual to her economic status or her racial, sexual, or gender identity is an anthropological error.

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

I can't get no respect.

No doubt Western modernity has its limitations and discontents. Still, it is far better than the known alternatives—not only, or even primarily, because of its advanced technology but because of its fundamental commitment to freedom, reason, and human dignity.

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors...then surely it is a braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

Some people regard the astonishing collapse of manners and civility in our society as a superficial event. They are wrong. The fate of decorum expresses the fate of a culture's dignity, its attitude toward its animating values.)

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

The doctrine of Original sin, which is contained in the story of Genesis – one of the most beautiful concentrated metaphors in existence – is about the way we human beings fall from treating each other as subjects to treating each other as objects. Love, respect and forgiveness come from that. When we treat each other as objects, then we get the concentration camps.

Blood circulating, heart bumping, feelings living deep down in his soul... He is then human.. Rohingya are humans, and humans should know this..

Your kitchen is not inferior to a queen's boudoir!' I replied with a pleasant smile, 'but we must leave it now; for the gentlemen may be cursing me for keeping them away from their duties in the kitchen so long.' We both laughed heartily.