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Quotes About Dignity

I thought we'd be like that too when we got old enough. Dignified. And in a place. And people would come to our door.
~ Raymond Carver
Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had.
~ Raymond Chandler
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He must be the best man in his world, and a good enough man for any world. From The Simple Art of Murder
~ Raymond Chandler
Take it easy, Doc. Around here we only hit our wives in private.
~ Raymond Chandler
I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I
~ Raymond Chandler
I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.
~ Raymond Chandler
He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
~ Rebecca Solnit
To believe him, you'd have to buy the line that Diallo took one look at his potbellied, 60-something naked body fresh out of the shower and just volunteered to go down on her knees.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation)
~ Ricardo Arjona
Prophta in su patri honrem nn habet.
~ Richard A. LaFleur
Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate.
~ Richard Adams
Gli animali non si comportano come gli uomini. Se devono battersi, si battono. Se devono uccidere, uccidono. Ma non usano la loro intelligenza per trovar la maniera di arrecar danni alle altre creature, di avvelenar loro la vita. Essi hanno dignità, hanno animalità.
~ Richard Adams
He wore the black suit which he used for funerals, a form of social entertainment which greatly appealed to Mr. Judd since it combined dignity of emotion with solemn lessons on the dangers of existence in an under-policed country.
~ Richard Aldington
Live to our highest right and we feel an easy-rolling lift of spirit. Sell ourselves for less and our skateboard's gone iron cobblestones.
~ Richard Bach
Ellos son animales, de acuerdo, pero ¿por qué crees que eso nos convierte a nosotros en seres humanos?
~ Richard Bachman
Bir ÅŸeyleri sürekli asaletle halleden insanlar var. O ÅŸeylerin ne olduÄŸunun önemi zaten yok.
~ Richard Brautigan
Bragging actually dilutes the positive feelings you receive from an accomplishment or something you are proud of. To make matters worse, the more you try to prove yourself, the more others will avoid you, talk behind your back about your insecure need to brag, and perhaps even resent you.
~ Richard Carlson
No one has the right to force you to violate your own privacy.
~ Richard Carlson
As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
~ Richard Dawkins
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
~ Richard Dawkins
our species is the only one not allowed to go to the vet to be painlessly put out of our misery.
~ Richard Dawkins