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Quotes About Dignity

No quería sin embargo que se notase esa humillación (una humillación admitida es una humillación doble), así que intentó sonreír como si todo sucediese con su anuencia
~ Milan Kundera
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
~ Simone Weil
If you think I'm going to cry all over your chest because you don't feel the same way, you're wrong. I don't beg for anybody's love.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Those whodisrespect youwith their mouthdon't deserveyour ear.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
God created us all with his love, to be equally treated.No human being is superior over another.
~ Ellen J. Barrier
She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment! I
~ Bram Stoker
Euthanasia is an excellent and a comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it. It
~ Bram Stoker
I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth
~ Brandon Mull
At the far end of the room, upon a moldering dais, a shabby man sat upon a battered thrown. A dingy rag bound his eyes, a tarnished crown rested upon his grey hair, and a grimy green robe edged in dirty white fur enshrouded his body. He looked like some homeless guy playing the part of a wise man in a soup kitchen Christmas pageant.
~ Brandon Mull
The worth of a person is more important than what a person is worth.
~ Brendan O'Carroll
Humans must never submit to animals. —Bene Gesserit Teaching
~ Brian Herbert
Workers. He remembered how his father had reacted to the word. "Next you'll want to call them employees. They are slaves!" Ulf had thundered as they stood in the overseer's office back on Hagal. "They have no rights.
~ Brian Herbert
Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.
~ Brian Morton
Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.
~ Brian Tracy
In addition to feeling excellent about yourself when you behave with character, you also earn the respect and esteem of all the people around you. They will look up to you and admire you. Doors will be opened for you. People will help you. You will be paid more, promoted faster, and given even greater responsibilities. As you become a person of honor and character, opportunities will appear all around you.
~ Brian Tracy
Nnaife did not realise that Dr Meers's laughter was inspired by that type of wickedness that reduces any man, white or black, intelligent or not, to a new low; lower than the basest of animals, for animals at least respected each other's feelings, each other's dignity.
~ Buchi Emecheta
I had come to regard pride as the defining characteristic of a gentleman, when indeed I should think the word itself, gentleman, should impress upon me what aspect I ought to have settled on as the defining one.
~ C.E. Murphy
you should not insult yourself so, sir. Is there not enough suffering in the world?
~ C.J. Sansom
When the poor at the BOP are treated as consumers, they can reap the benefits of respect, choice, and self-esteem and have an opportunity to climb out of the poverty trap.
~ C.K. Prahalad
When the poor are converted into consumers, they get more than access to products and services. They acquire the dignity of attention and choices from the private sector that were previously reserved for the middle-class and rich.
~ C.K. Prahalad
But there was always a word for what Candy was, then and now: human.
~ Candy Darling
A Queen knows who she is.
~ Cari Lynn
Since becoming chief, he'd also been well served by an uncommon immunity to condescension.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with a different collective label. But is that all? Is there nothing in here but molecules? Some people find this idea somehow demeaning to human dignity. For myself, I find it elevating that our universe permits the evolution of molecular machines as intricate and subtle as we.
~ Carl Sagan