Quotes About Dignity

Don't you know....don't you know that there are things, in the best of us, which no outside hand should dare touch? Things sacred because, and only because, one can say: 'This is mine'? Don't you know that we live only for ourselves, the best of us do, those who are worthy of it? Don't you know that there is something in us which must not be touched by any state, by any collective, by any number of the millions?

They're all aristocrats, that's true," said Wyatt, "because they know that there's no such thing as a lousy job—only lousy men who don't care to do it.

His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth.

it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.

No one can tell men what they must live for. No one can take that right - because there are things in men, in the best of us, which are above all states, above all collectives!

A man who surrenders his value is at mercy of anyone's will.

his stomach, cantilevered over his legs, did detract from the dignity, but it added to the kindliness.

Todo aquel que se respeta no gusta de verse convertido en vaca lechera de la comunidad.

Para vivir, el hombre ha de considerar tres cosas como los valores supremos gobernantes de su vida: Razón, Propósito, Estima propia. La Razón como única herramienta de conocimiento, el Propósito como su elección de felicidad que con aquella herramienta ha de poder conseguir; la estima propia como inviolable certidumbre de que su mente es competente para pensar y su persona digna de la felicidad, lo que significa digna de vivir.

Ellos eran el mundo; ellos y no los que permanecían agazapados en rincones obscuros, mendigando o amenazando, a la vez que mostraban sus abiertas llagas, como única aspiración a la vida y la virtud.

you're a man whom any woman would be proud to show off as her husband.

They're all aristocrats, that's true, said Wyatt, because they know that there's no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

It takes no kindness to respect a man who deserves respect - it's only payment which he's earned. To give an unearned respect is the supreme gesture of charity

The man who enslaves himself voluntarily in the name of love is the basest of creatures. He degrades the dignity of man and he degrades the conception of love.

No es preciso esforzarse en respetar a quien merece respeto; tan sólo se le paga lo que es debido.

I have no private purpose. I want power. I want my world of the future. Let all live for all. Let all sacrifice and none profit. Let all suffer and none enjoy. Let progress stop. Let all stagnate. There's equality in stagnation. All subjugated to the will of all. Universal slavery—without even the dignity of a master. Slavery to slavery. A great circle—and a total equality. The world of the future.

These supposedly better-for-women dictators were not opposed to imprisoning women or using sexual violence—gang rapes, virginity checks—to punish women who opposed them. For women who wanted more—more dignity, more public and civic influence, more room to practice their religion—the status quo had no room for them.

Foreign fighters, known as muhajireen, or migrants, began streaming into town—answering the call to fight Assad, to build a state in God's name, to find some dignity and purpose in the plains of Syria that had been absent in their lives in Europe or Tunisia or Morocco or Jordan. These foreigners became the leading lights of the transformed city.

Tehran looked the way most of its remaining citizens must have felt: sad, forlorn, and defenseless, yet not without a certain dignity. The adhesive tape pasted on the window-panes to prevent the implosion of shattered glass told the story of its suffering, a suffering made more poignant because of its newly recovered beauty, the fresh green of trees, washed by spring showers, the blossoms and the rising snowcapped mountains now so near, as if pasted across the sky.

No one is pro-abortion.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

These others, they have treated you badly. They are just too lazy to work for themselves.' And you know what he would say to me? He would say, 'How do you know that man does not need this small thing more than me?

Setiap strategi untuk mengurangi kemiskinan antargenerasi harus dipusatkan pada pekerjaan, bukan pada kesejahteraan--bukan hanya karena pekerjaan itu memberikan kebebasan dan pendapatan, melainkan juga karena pekerjaan itu mendatangkan kedisiplinan, struktur, harga diri, dan kesempatan untuk berkembang dalam kehidupan masyarakat.

When people at dinner parties ask me how I can possibly operate in the current political environment, with all the negative campaigning and personal attacks, I may mention Nelson Mandela, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, or some guy in a Chinese or Egyptian prison somewhere. In truth, being called names is not such a bad deal.