Quotes About Dignity

The rabbinic account of how God taught Adam and Eve the secret of making fire is the precise opposite of the story of Prometheus. God seeks to confer dignity on the beings He made in His image as an act of love. He does not hide the secrets of the universe from us. He does not seek to keep mankind in a state of ignorance or dependence.

When religious faith goes, five things happen, gradually and imperceptibly. First there is a loss of belief in human dignity and the sanctity of life.

if you can't treat this person properly there is something fundamentally wrong with your system.

Unlike the Greeks, we believe that the dead are beyond harm, so we need often overlook the toxic residue left behind by disrespectful treatment of enemy dead.

Wenn man schon eines grässlichen Todes sterben muss, sollte man wenigstens einen stilvollen Abgang hinlegen.

The fact that a humble commoner was more honourable than you'll ever be is hardly my affair. You do what you like.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

It's these darn barbecues. It's so hard to stand and hold on to a plate full of food, a drink and your dignity at the same time

But seriously, Gracie. You can't let people walk all over you. They're just people. What right do they have?

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

la prigione viene a essere non l'abominio di desolazione delle famiglie, quanto invece il suo luogo naturale, solo allora lo spirito cristiano avrà ritrovato la sua primitiva dignità.

It is clear that the use of such a weapon cannot be justified on any ethical ground which gives a human being a certain individuality and dignity even if he happens to be a resident of an enemy country.

I always respect a woman.

La moral es el arte de vivir con dignidad:

Talmud, en una de sus sentencias, que el hombre fuerte es el que domina sus pasiones, el sabio el que aprende de todos con amor, y el honrado, aquel que trata a todos con dignidad, honrando a cada ser humano.

Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

Frederick Douglass, who had encountered racism even within abolitionist ranks, considered Lincoln a fundamentally decent individual. "He treated me as a man," Douglass remarked in 1864, "he did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins.

Little value comes out of the belief that people will respond progressively better by treating them progressively worse.