Quotes About Dignity

I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Convention is the day a person gives up on the human race.

You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.

This is the way of the weak; quiet and fair.

Yet even more than He made man and woman for the sake of work, He made work for the sake of man and woman— because only through work could they become truly godlike. It's

Thus, the founder of Opus Dei, though he was a priest, did not seek to gather power to the clergy. In fact, he wanted the Catholic laity to discover their own dignity and assume the responsibilities that came with baptism.

But Dixon had once been a soldier. He knew that courage was not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

I know very well that we are not all equal, nor can be so; but it is my opinion that he who avoids the common people, in order not to lose their respect, is as much to blame as a coward who hides himself from his enemy because he fears defeat. The

Lo digno no se puede describir.

The pure-bred mare is not shamed by its trappings. p56

Integrity is the noblest possession. -Latin Proverb.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

First then, I lay down for a principle, that nobody at an University is to be taught the practice of any rule without the true and solid reason and demonstration of the same. Rules without demonstration must and ought to be taught to seamen, artisans, &c. as I have already said; and schools for such people are fit in seaports and trading towns; but it is far below the dignity of an University, which is designed for solid and true learning, to do this.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

When it comes to dealing with change and crisis, grace becomes evident in how we treat one another.

Keeping the notion of dignity front and center creates a workplace where people want to be.

And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?

Are humans ever really capable of regarding others as ends in themselves?

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

Farangs don't understand us Thais. They think if a girl sells her body, then she has no dignity, no limits. Actually, the opposite is often the truth. Women like your mother are very free spirits. Could you imagine Nong ever holding down a normal job? Or putting up with abuse from a man? A woman might sell her body because it's more dignified and safer than being married to a violent drunk who goes whoring without protection.

It is character, not numbers, that make the world go 'round.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

We should forever keep in mind that we must not brood on the wickedness of man, but realize that he is God's image bearer.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.