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Quotes About Dignity

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
~ John Ruskin
We all should realize the significance of a human life and how we all should be treated.
~ Jason McCourty
I have always tried to play significant characters and have never done cheap comedy.
~ Satish Kaushik
By signing a contract, you accept the conditions, but there are ways and forms. Players are privileged, but those who are in charge of these things have to understand that, in addition of players, we are also people.
~ Ricky Rubio
Silence is my dignity.
~ Hansika Motwani
You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
~ Calvin Johnson
Maharani Gayatri Devi - she was elegance and simplicity personified.
~ Kirti Kulhari
nothing can alter the fact that beneath the fascist insignia of their uniforms, these men are fathers, husbands, sons. I
~ Steven Pressfield
Never lose the common touch," he told her afterward. "Never think anyone is better than you, but never assume you're superior to anyone else. Try and be decent to everyone, until they give you a reason not to.
~ Steven Travers
Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
~ Steven Weinberg
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
~ Steven Weinberg
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion
~ Steven Weinberg
Reorientation means an emphasis on the dignity of man, not on the sanctity of property. It means the creation of a society where human misery and poverty are repugnant to that society, not an indication of laziness or lack of initiative. The creation of new values means the establishment of a society based on free people, not free enterprise.
~ Stokely Carmichael
I can't stand a man who fawns, you know what I mean? I can't stand a man sucking up to me, but he was the kind who took you right on the floor and he didn't even look at you afterwards when he zipped up his pants.
~ Sue Grafton
Get old, you might as well not worry about your dignity. Anybody talks about dignity for old folks has never been around one as far as I can tell. You can keep your spunk, but you have to give up your vanity early on.
~ Sue Grafton
A slave was supposed to be like the Holy Ghost—don't see it, don't hear it, but it's always hovering round on ready.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
What I want most of all is that you live in uprightness and freedom of spirit, no matter how difficult that may be. —Robert Scholl
~ Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The first temperance groups were secular and calm. Their purpose was to help men hang on to their paychecks and their dignity. But America is not a calm nation.
~ Susan Cheever
It's all right! Simon said hoarsely. Hastily he cleared his throat and put his shoulders back, though it was hard to recover dignity in pajamas.
~ Susan Cooper
If their children misbehave, they'll take away privileges, but they won't assault their dignity or value.
~ Susan Forward
No human should ever be seen as something less than.
~ Susan Grant
I respect the values that imbued my personal trajectory, I must avoid the degradations and dependencies of pointless suffering. "Death has dominion," Ronald Dworkin explains, "because it is not only the start of nothing but the end of everything, and how we think and talk about dying—the emphasis we put on dying with 'dignity'—shows how important it is that life ends appropriately, that death keeps faith with the way we want to have lived.
~ Susan Gubar
To talk about camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves.
~ Susan Sontag
The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.
~ Josephine Ross