Quotes About Dignity

Her age was one of the reasons she always got away with it. In Africa elderly people still command respect.

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

She liked it that he didn't play games. She was sick and a half of being condescended to.

There's money, and then there's class.

For the twenty-first century, a far bigger goal is needed: meeting the human rights of every person within the means of our life-giving planet.

meeting the human rights of every person within the means of our life-giving planet.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

Umilirea este cel mai teribil atentat la adresa libert??ii.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

You hire our boys because they don't know how to ask for what they're worth. You treat them as if they were slaves.

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mounting a carriage

the reason you give your body is what makes it right or makes it shameful, and only you can decide that.

the dignity and sobriety of old public buildings, their temple facades, would be assaulted and covered over by indiscriminate modernity; that new buildings, more severely efficient, would eventually replace them.

To be noble,. . .was to account for the life you lived, to always account for your mistakes, and to have dignity and worth.

Just don't ever think you deserve to be beaten.

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.