Quotes About Dignity

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.

She was reserved, and kept things to herself, as the truly great always do.

The first meeting I really remember with the good doctor was when I was starting to be able to speak English again and making a brave attempt to regain some of my dignity. Trying to be very sane, I went up to him and asked if he was my doctor. He said he didn't think so. You're Dr. Dale, aren't you? Why, Mark, of course. I didn't recognize you with clothes on. He had a talent for saying just the right thing.

She didn't overreact. It may have crossed her mind to march down to the woman responsible for sending this charity shitbox, but she didn't. She swallowed the glint of anger. She packed it into her prim-and-proper voice, and like her son, moved on.

When the elderly Jew climbed to his feet for the last time and continued on, he looked briefly back. He took a last sad glance at the man who was kneeling now himself, whose back was burning with four lines of fire, whose knees were aching on the road. If nothing else, the old man would die like a human. Or at least with the thought that he was a human.

If nothing else, the old man would die like a human. Or at least with the thought that he was a human.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

because people so poor that they can't even afford shame and I wait.

I couldn't control that the Nazis considered me subhuman. But I could control how I treated others.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

La razón tiene una dignidad especial que se alza por encima del juego de las fuerzas, y sólo en la medida en que se respeta la razón en una sociedad las minorías serán capaces de hacer escuchar sus justas, pero impopulares, demandas.

The dignity of these humans is to weep.

God creates us all in His image. There are no second-class citizens, no minorities, no human being greater or lesser that any other. We are all the same in His eyes.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.

In a conclusive rebuke to the Nazi idea, these 'subhumans', it turns out, were the cream of humankind. And

Lo principal era tratar de no dejar nunca mal parado a un adversario, ashanti, fanti, mexicano o lo que fuere.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.