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Quotes About Dignity

Rok Zorko, vice president of product development for the very successful app-development company, Outfit7, said, "It is an eye-opener to realize that you are not to treat people as objects but to treat them as people. Once you have this knowledge, you can never unthink it.
~ The Arbinger Institute
How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness?
~ Theodore Dalrymple
A man, to hold his position, must have a dignified manner, a clean record, a respectable home anchorage.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.
~ Theodore Dwight Weld
Un sentiment de vénération montait en lui. Il savait que ce sentiment n'était autre que ce qu'il avait toujours été pour le reste de l'humanité, c'est-à-dire le respect de soi-même.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
We are not noble by birth. We are noble only by virtue of the way we think, speak, and act.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
~ Maria Shriver
If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
~ Sydney Schanberg
We march on because all lives matter, not to be judged by the color of their skin.
~ Donna Brazile
I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.
~ Edwin Edwards
I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'
~ Logic
I was dating someone and wanted to get married to him. But just because casting couch exists in TFI and I work here, he didn't respect me.
~ Tejaswi Madivada
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
~ Earl Warren
My whole career has been a struggle for dignity and justification, to prove that I'd made the right decision to be an actor in the first place.
~ Nigel Hawthorne
There's a guy I used to pay to work with me who'd call me 'kiddo.' I said, 'There's nothing that justifies you expressing that to me, your boss.'
~ Esperanza Spalding
It doesn't mean you can't discuss important things, but I would never do a joke about cancer, just because I don't think any joke is funny enough to justify upsetting someone who is going through that.
~ Jon Richardson
As governor, I'll treat all Kentucky families with dignity and respect.
~ Andy Beshear
To kick someone when they're down is just something that you really should never do.
~ Chrishell Stause
I'm not fond of kicking a man when he's down.
~ Mike Gallagher
The best thing we can do when we want to elevate civil dialogue in our American political discourse is to do whatever we can to make sure we treat others kindly with dignity and respect, and that's what I intend to do.
~ Mike Lee
I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.
~ Richard Petty
If you see a man kiss me, I better be in my casket.
~ Charles Oakley
It's not my habit to kiss and tell. I've never done it.
~ Simon Cowell
Anyone should have the right to say no if they don't want someone to kiss them or touch them or date them or anything.
~ Ginuwine