Quotes About Dignity

The more a man can go below own self-respect level, the more it gets easy for him to accept the dramatic show & dictatorship blow of his girlfriend or wife in his life.

The price of dress does not decide the worth of a person

There is nothing called the dignity of work in any job of the organisation.

Seeing an equal person as an inferior object is an act of violence

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

A slave is but half a man.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Be studious to preserve your reputation; if that be once lost, you are like a cancelled writing, of no value, and at best you do but survive your own funeral.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speach and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.

if you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think?

To look good in defeat is the ultimate a person can want.

The horror of unemployment is the final undoing of the worker. When he sees this confronting him he sells himself regardless of the intrinsic worth of his ability. Labor unions and collective bargaining arose to give him some show of power and dignity.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

I must come back to a point I have made repeatedly: never treat others with contempt, even if you believe they deserve it.

From my earliest days, I learned of the evils of objectifying others.

The moral case against objectifying others is fairly straightforward. It starts to get more complicated when the objectifier and the one being objectified are the same person—in other words, with self-objectification, which scholars define as viewing oneself from a third-person perspective that does not consider one's full humanity.