Quotes About Dignity

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I will canoodle with a dumb man, but I won't snuggle with an asshole.

The common man means the average man, a typical man, a decent hardworking person of modest dreams and resources. A common woman is a woman who looks cheap. A woman who looks cheap doesn't have to be respected, and so she has a certain value, a certain cheap value.

You can't own someone for a dollar.

her shoulders, her neck, and

No, it's not okay to cry, because when dignity is all you have left you can't afford to lose it.

It does not make me ridiculous simply to be less foul than those about me.

Friendship is necessary and ennobling; but impersonal despotism is destructive of all dignity and manly virtue.

As John of the Cross points out with devastating accuracy and precision, the disorders in our heart, unless they are healed and purified by the action of the one true God, will leave us enslaved to our passions and unable to think clearly, decide wisely, and live in a way worthy of our dignity as bearers of the image of God.

One is respected in a community to the extent, and only to the extent, that he or she respects his own position in life. There are doctors, lawyers, and even clergymen who are a disgrace to humanity, and the disciples of Christ were lowly fishermen. I would not, for all the world, have any one of you children grow up to feel that you were less than equal in every way to any other human being who walks the face of the earth.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...

Self-command is the main elegance.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

As to what are called the masses, and common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.

As an upper-caste reformer, Gandhi was motivated by a sense of guilt, the desire to make reparation for past sins, whereas as one born in an 'untouchable' home, Ambedkar was animated by the drive to achieve a position of social equality and human dignity for his fellows.

Being a Gentleman, has more to do with hiding his flaws, than exhibiting the virtues!

Don't beg anyone for any form of gratification, be it mental, psychological or sexual, for resorting to such practices in itself is an insult to your existence. Celebrate in your own grandeur with dignity!

Stop raping me with your eyes!

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic struggle which that country waged in the 1930s and 1940s not just for its own national dignity and survival, but for the victory of all the Allies, west and east, against some of the darkest forces that history has ever produced.

Holy Science: 'A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson which humility can teach.' - Samuel Johnson