Quotes About Dignity

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Money may be precious, but people are priceless!

Am I not a man and a brother?

Sometimes respecting people means making sure your systems are inclusive such as in the case of using AI for precision medicine, at times it means respecting people's privacy by not collecting any data, and it always means respecting the dignity of an individual.

Cada persona, sin excepción, tiene dignidad y valor a los ojos de Dios, y cada persona necesita y merece nuestra compasión",

La aceptación serena de la tragedia, este pasearse tranquilamente entre el más acá y el Más Allá, es lo que daba al español de antaño su gravedad honda, su aplomo honrado y sufriente, su firmeza ante la adversidad. El español de antaño sabía que el más acá es un valle de lágrimas que hay que caminar con entereza, para ser digno acreedor de un Más Allá de caricias encendidas y venas vibradoras

Lo que más indigna al charlatán es alguien silencioso y digno.

put back in their place.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.

Miss Manners hereby absolves everyone from feeling any embarrassment deliberately imposed by others.

It is a general rule to err on the side of formality rather than of intimacy.

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland

It is, however, not only undignified to idealize political victims; it is also very dangerous. One of our political actualities is that the victims of political torture and injustice are often no better than their tormentors. They are only waiting to change places with the latter. Of course, if one puts cruelty first this makes no difference. It does not matter whether the victim of torture is a decent man or a villain. No one deserves to be subjected to the appalling instruments of cruelty.

yourself in such a manner?

One acts with dignity," he said, "as much as one may. One compromises only as much as one must, and still remain oneself. And one keeps one's pride, even if one must keep it in secret, where only God can see.

He was a man who always gave the impression of wearing a top hat, even when he was not.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

Today our news media is bombarded by bare-chested "feminists" yowling in the streets proclaiming their rights to murder their children in their wombs, their rights to have intimate relations with each other, and oddly enough, that they have "equal rights and dignity with men." Notice, too, if we watch the decline of morals in our society, the acceptance of public nudity and immodesty begin to escalate.

It is interesting to note that immodesty in dress was not solely a problem of the 1960s till today, but it continued through time as other vices which the Church never failed to warn of and condemn. And it was a constant theme in pagan cultures, while Christianity always promoted dignity in dress.