Quotes About Dignity

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

A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well.

Erasing the agrarian past wherein black folks worked the land, sustained our lives by growing and tending crops, was a way to deny that there were any aspects of life in the white supremacist South that was positive. At the end of nineteenth century the cultural myths that made freedom synonymous with materialism necessarily denied the dignity of any agrarian based life style.

A young man needs to know where he stands in the world, not just as a matter of basic human dignity but as determinants in the ways and means of survival, and what you might hope to gain by application of honest effort—

I think sometimes nothing is better than something. I mean, I'd rather have nothing than let this guy use me like his bitch.

SIR P: Sir, calumnies are answer'd best with silence.

You're a bastard, I said. Uhtred, he began, but could find nothing more to say. You're a piece of weasel-shit, I said, you're an earsling. I'm a king, he said, trying to regain his dignity. So you're a royal piece of weasel-shit. An earsling on a throne.

We should know who they are, I said, before we kill them. That's just being polite.

O orgulho faz o homem, impulsiona-o, é a parede de escudos ao redor de sua reputação, e os dinamarqueses entendiam isso. Os homens morrem, diziam eles, mas a reputação não.

A man without honour has no reputation

certainly strip him of his petty

I can unbutton your breeches and I can point you down wind, but even with the Good Lord's help I can't piss for you.

If you're powerless, lord, then why be ashamed of what the strong inflict on you? It's for them to be ashamed.

So you settle to be a slave, eh? Yes, lord, no, lord, let me hold your prick while you piss all over me, lord?

A man without honor has no reputation

The law says I own that land, and the law, we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch.

Poor as an honest lawyer.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Apart front the things you can pick up ( the dressing and the proper way of speaking and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me like a lady and always will.

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.

No man is fit to educate unless he feels each pupil an end in himself, with his own rights and his own personality, not merely a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, or a soldier in a regiment, or a citizen in a State. Reverence for human personality is the beginning of wisdom, in every social question but above all in education.

Modesty... consists in pretending not to think better of ourselves and our belongings than of the man we are speaking to and his belongings.

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life, and that unless the contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs. But I do not believe that such contemplation on the whole tends to happiness. It gives moments of delight, but these are outweighed by years of effort and depression.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things — the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold — were false to you.