Quotes About Dignity

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

There is not a racist bone in my dad's body. He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.

Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.

I don't appreciate people taking shots and joking at my expense, when I don't do that to anybody else.

There's nothing that makes a girl feel less like smiling than some oaf leering at her to change her face

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

All is lost save honor.

Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness.

by indignities men come to dignities

Öcünü alan kiÅŸi düÅŸman?yla ayn? olur, oysa hoÅŸgörüp geçse düÅŸman?ndan üstün duruma gelir, çünkü ba???lamak büyük adamlara özgüdür.

Lastly, concerning the disdain to receive into natural history things either common, or mean, or oversubtle and in their original condition useless, the answer of the poor woman to the haughty prince who had rejected her petition as an unworthy thing and beneath his dignity, may be taken for an oracle: "Then leave off being king." For most certain it is that he who will not attend to things like these as being too paltry and minute, can neither win the kingdom of nature nor govern it.

the left stopped thinking several decades ago about ambitious social policies that might help remedy the underlying conditions of the poor. It was easier to talk about respect and dignity than to come up with potentially costly plans that would concretely reduce inequality.

The politics of recognition and dignity had reached a fork by the early nineteenth century. One fork led to the universal recognition of individual rights, and thence to liberal societies that sought to provide citizens with an ever-expanding scope of individual autonomy. The other fork led to assertions of collective identity, of which the two major manifestations were nationalism and politicized religion.

Este error en la entrega postal se produjo debido a la forma en que los incentivos económicos se entrelazan con los problemas de identidad en el comportamiento humano. Ser pobre es ser invisible a ojos de los demás seres humanos, y la indignidad de la invisibilidad resulta a menudo peor que la falta de recursos.

But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics of resentment. In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group's dignity had been affronted, disparaged, or otherwise disregarded. This resentment engenders demands for public recognition of the dignity of the group in question.

Thymos is the part of the soul that craves recognition of dignity; isothymia is the demand to be respected on an equal basis with other people; while megalothymia is the desire to be recognized as superior.

economic grievances become much more acute when they are attached to feelings of indignity and disrespect.

modern thought has arrived at an impasse, unable to come to a consensus on what constitutes man and his specific dignity, and consequently unable to define the rights of man.

the universal human psychology of thymos. This moral idea tells us that we have authentic inner selves that are not being recognized and suggests that the whole of external society may be false and repressive. It focuses our natural demand for recognition of our dignity and gives us a language for expressing the resentments that arise when such recognition is not forthcoming.

The inner self is the basis of human dignity

It is not enough that I have a sense of my own worth if other people do not publicly acknowledge it or, worse yet, if they denigrate me or don't acknowledge my existence.

La conexión entre ingreso y dignidad también sugiere por qué algo parecido a una renta universal garantizada, como solución a la pérdida de empleos por culpa de la automatización, no conseguirá la paz social ni hacer felices a quienes la reciban.

Many modern democratic constitutions thus enshrine the principle of equal dignity. They are drawing on the Christian tradition that sees dignity rooted in human moral agency. But that agency is no longer seen in a religious sense, as the ability to accept God; rather, it is the ability to share in the exercise of power as a member of a democratic political community.