Quotes About Dignity

La peggiore violenza contro l'uomo è la degradazione dell'intelletto.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Every true leader is expected to be commanding respect/dignity from his/her followers/subjects and not at all to be demanding for it.

Everyone counts, including you (personally). Oh! yes, anyone who says that you don't count is either a hater, a racist or a bigot (period). ~Emeasoba George

Never ever hold anyone or someone in contempt i.e. never ever despise or disregard anyone, regardless of his or her colour, sex, race, religion, tribe or language. Because, the very person who you're despising or disregarding presently is most likely to rule over you someday e.g. Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Goodluck Jonathan among others.

Never ever look down on anybody no matter his or her family background/colour/language/race/tribe/present condition. For, one who is nobody today/presently can become somebody tomorrow/subsequently.

Never ever look down on anybody, no matter his or her present condition. For, condition changes with time. I mean, one who is nobody today can become somebody tomorrow (mark you). ~Emeasoba George

No human is beneath contempt. In other words, no human is utterly worthless or despicable. Yes! anyone who thinks or says otherwise is either a hater, bigot or racist. You can say I said so. -Emeasoba George

You matter, yes you heard me right. Anyone who thinks/speaks otherwise is just taking you for granted period.

You should not look down on anyone right here or out there. No matter the person's current condition. For, one who is nobody today can become somebody tomorrow. Yes! condition changes with time. -Emeasoba George

You worth so much. So, refuse to be disregarded by anyone. ~Emeasoba George

Seeing an equal person as an inferior object is an act of violence...It hurts as much as a punch to the face. In fact, in many ways it hurts more. Bruises heal more quickly than emotional scars do.

I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what Flaubert said: "I am a mystic and I believe in nothing".

Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.

Mai bine s-o rupi cu toat? lumea decât s?-nghiÅ£i o umilint? dup? alta.

What are the occupations of the sage? He resigns himself to seeing, to eating, etc…., he accepts in spite of himself this "wound with nine openings," which is what the Bhagavad-Gita calls the body.?Wisdom? To undergo with dignity the humiliation inflicted upon us by our holes.

The solutions offered by our ancestral cowardice are the worst desertions of our duty to intellectual decency. To be fooled, to live and die duped, is certainly what men do. But there exists a dignity which keeps us from disappearing into God and which transforms all our moments into prayers we shall never offer.

As all the other beliefs and practices assume less and less religious a character, the individual becomes the object of a sort of religion. We carry on the worship of the dignity of the human person, which, like all strong acts of worship, has already acquired its superstitions.

L'Incorruttibile, severo nel suo portamento, elegante nel suo vestire, non prese mai parte a una dimostrazione né si confuse mai con i cittadini comuni adottandone lo stile e i simboli.

The use of the Queen, in a dignified capacity, is incalculable. Without her in England, the present English Government would fail and pass away. Most people when they read that the Queen walked on the slopes at Windsor—that the Prince of Wales went to the Derby—have imagined that too much thought and prominence were given to little things. But they have been in error; and it is nice to trace how the actions of a retired widow and an unemployed youth become of such importance.

In history the name of God is the terrible club with which all divinely inspired men, the great "virtuous geniuses," have beaten down the liberty, dignity, reason, and prosperity of man.

In behalf of human liberty, dignity, and prosperity, we believe it our duty to recover from heaven the goods which it has stolen and return them to earth.... It is now the freethinkers' turn to pillage heaven by their audacious impiety and scientific analysis.