Quotes About Dignity

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

There's a term you don't hear these days, one you used to hear all the time when the Carnegie branches opened: Palaces for the People. The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who can't otherwise afford a shred of it. People need to have nobility and dignity in their lives. And, you know, they need other people to recognize it in them too.

Something told her to hide the feeling from Herb. That something, that damned something, was the sense of civilized dignity that is one of our most civilized attributes, the source of so many missed opportunities.

The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards. The

He and his allies declared that every human being was equal in God's sight and made in the image of God, and must therefore be treated with equal dignity.

One cannot demand "the truth" at any cost, and for this girl to admit in front of the class that her father is a drunkard is to dishonor him. How one tells the truth depends on circumstances.

The average American has the feeling that work..is the only dignified way of life...While theoretically, economic activities are supposed to be the means to the good life, as a matter of fact it is not the end, but the means themselves, that have the greater prestige.

And workers who needed to go to the bathroom weren't allowed to take a break. They were forced to pee right on the slaughterhouse floor, near meat that people would soon be eating.

Was auch immer geschieht: Nie dürft Ihr so tief sinken, von dem Kakao, durch den man Euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken!

Lostface!" Cloudtail spat suddenly. The venom in his voice startled Fireheart. "I hate that name," he hissed. "What right does Bluestar have to remind her of what happened every time a cat speaks to her? Well, I'm not going to use it again. And if Bluestar objects, she can . . . she can go and eat snails!

The answer to how to engage with obesity, Cahnman said, was 'an agreement of mutual respect for the common humanity of each and every one of us'. Weight stigma, he pointed out, cannot be removed except by treating individuals with obesity as normal human beings – as intelligent and capable as anyone else – and removing any sense of moral shame about their condition.

Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

You don't actually know enough about me to insult me properly.

Her garments borrowed grace from her.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

even his incontinence —

By dignifying even the most despicable character as a human being, by offering them what empathy we can manage, we also hold them accountable for their choices.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good i know of everyone

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. His cares must still be double to his joys, In any dignity.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.