Quotes About Dignity

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

His condition had plainly improved. Once a slave , he was now only a serf. Once condemned to silence, he was now free to criticize his masters, and even to flout them, and the ordinances of God with them..

Peck Valley would have shuddered a bit had it known the easy ethics of its mortuary artist in such debatable matters as the ownership of costly "laying-out" apparel invisible beneath the casket's lid, and the degree of dignity to be maintained in posing and adapting the unseen members of lifeless tenants to containers not always calculated with sublimest accuracy. Most distinctly Birch was lax, insensitive, and professionally undesirable;

Once a wily and wicked person, perceiving her helplessness, offered her a position as dish-washer in a fashionable and depraved cabaret; but our heroine was true to her rustic ideals and refused to work in such a gilded and glittering palace of frivolity—especially since she was offered only $3.00 per week with meals but no board.

Though these stately old avenues were ill-surfaced and unkempt, their elm-shaded dignity had not entirely departed.

A fat servant is not much of a man. A beaten servant is a great man, because in his breast freedom has its home.

For poverty is miserable. It is ugly, disorganized, rowdy, sick, uneducated, violent, afflicted with crime. Poverty demeans human dignity. The demanding tone, the inarticulateness, the implied violence deeply offended us. We didn't want to see it on our sacred monumental grounds. We wanted it out of sight and out of mind.

The conception of human rights based upon the assumed existence of a human being as such broke down at the very moment when those who professed to believe in it were for the first time confronted with people who had indeed lost all other qualities and specific relationships except that they were still human. The world found nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human.

Needless to add, where men live in truly miserable conditions this passion for freedom is unknown.

In California, you can stretch your arms out and not be touching another person. You get space, sun and, in general, dignity.

If I have a daughter, I want her to grow up in a world where people know to explicitly ask before touching her.

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

Real men stay out of their women's business and they don't engage in repugnant hostile actions or words toward a woman whether they know, like, or dislike her.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

My work has taught me to pay great respects towards human beings.

When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people.

I feel like I let people know I'm not a toy.

After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.

I don't think that any campaign is ennobled by people trading insults.

We are nothing if we walk alone we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.