Quotes About Dignity

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible change at all to their face.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.

Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.

There was something terribly stark in the way she said it, an acknowledgment of the hopelessness of the vampires' love for the demi-angels, and at the same time a resolute dignity that rejected pity.

The indignities visited on his corpse could not touch him; in death he was inviolate. I had no such grace.

She was the sort of woman men wanted to help. Not the sort they wanted to help themselves to…

The true lady treats the whole world as her dance floor,

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

No matter how deep in disgrace, a human being IS human, after all.

Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East—that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away—were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." —THE SHOOTIST

If we treat people inhumanely, we should never be surprised when they return the favor.

Manners that would keep you starving are no manners worth respecting.

Some of them were already obviously impaired in the fine art of standing up straight.

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time?

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

My client may deserve serious punishment, but first prove that is the case. And remember at all times that he is a human being, which means he must be treated with minimum standards of decency, because doing so redeems not only him but you.

Shame is a pillaging thief, one that robs us of dignity, freedom, and joy.

You can't just pluck your honour off a bush You didn't plant.

Obedience And respect must be instilled. And that is why No woman here is going to be allowed To walk all over us. Otherwise, as men We'll be disgraced. We won't deserve the name.

My flesh was not for feasting on

Let us listen to the lesson of Martin Luther King, who wrote: "The movement does not seek to liberate blacks at the price of the humiliation of the whites. It wants to liberate American society and to help all people to liberate themselves.