Quotes About Dignity

Pena que a Natureza fizesse de ti um só indivíduo. Porque havia matéria para um homem digno e para um patife.

No man ever crossed me and was the better for it. So many have said so, and yet here I am, said Holmes, smiling.

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one

He thought most men would hardly dare to touch her, or only with anger, because she would not pretend anything was casual.

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong. It must be possible even for weak and pitiful creatures — like himself and this old dog — to make some contribution in their lifetime.

El trabajo de Charcot devolvió primeramente a este tema su dignidad y dio fin a las irónicas sonrisas con las que se acogían las lamentaciones de las pacientes.

El honor de una mujer era el honor de todos los hombres que tenían el derecho y el deber de velar por ella.

One in a hundred people today suffer from schizophrenia: Nearly all of them, if treated with compassion and good chemistry, can have some kind of dignified life, of a kind that was denied, for much of his time, to Doctor Minor. Except, of course, that Minor had hid dictionary work.

said. 'To make someone lose face is unforgivable.' The

But though it was to be an economical crossing, one step up from steerage, in the Canadian Pacific offices off Trafalgar Square—more cathedral than bureau, all teak, marble, and hush, and with scale models of famous ocean liners from the old days illuminated in the windows—even this most modest of transactions was handled with dignity and circumstance.

C'est par le travail que la femme a conquis sa dignité d'être humain; mais ce fut une conquête singulièrement dure et lente.

Peut-être vas-tu me trouver ridicule, mais je me mépriserais de n'oser l'être jamais.

Cependant ils manifestent le plus respectable souci qui puisse torturer une âme noble : elle veut demeurer digne de sa propre estime ; elle met son propre souffrage plus haut que celui d'autrui et par là elle se réalise comme absolu

Une femme libre est exactement le contraire d'une femme légère

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Il s'agit, après avoir toujours plié, tout subi, tout encaissé en silence, d'oser enfin se redresser. Se tenir debout. Prendre la parole à son tour. Se tenir des hommes pendant quelques jours... Cette grève en elle-même est joie pure.

bouncing old retired general--he's dotty over motors. Roars around on a shocking old motor bike--mustache and dignity flying in the morning breeze--atrocious bills for all the geese and curates he runs over.

God, sir, men's souls and blood are not eggshells for tyrants to break!

Yet all this while the power of thought, the pull of conscience, were feeble beside Alverna's youth. It was his first love; the first time in his life that he had been roused to through away caution and dignity.

He that is without name,without friend,without coin,without country,is still at least a man;and he that has all these is no more

I stand morally opposed to killing: war, executions, killing of the old and demented, the killing of children, unborn and born. . . . I believe that all of life is sacred and must be protected, especially in the vulnerable stages at the beginning of life and its end.

So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!

And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.

OK. The trick is when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is not to overreact. Instead, keep your chin up and pretend nothing happened.