Quotes About Dignity

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

This is not war. This is…what? Errant save us, I have no answer, no way to describe the magnitude of this slaughter. It is mindless. Blasphemous. As if we have forgotten dignity. Theirs, our own. The word itself. No distinction between innocence and guilt, condemned by mere existence.

Men. It's all about saving face. Every argument, every duel, every battle, every war. You would level a world to keep from being made to look a fool. And so you shall.

The proudest candle vanishes unseen into a raging house-fire, with none to recount the beauty of its delicate glow, or the dignity of its desire.

The harder the world the fiercer the honor

There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

Us soldiers only got one kind of coin worth anything, and it's called respect. And we hoard it, we hide it away, and there ain't nobody who'd call us generous. Easy spenders we're not. But there's something feels even worse than having to give up a coin – it's when somebody steps up and tosses one back at us.

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

It is because of this notion [of species essence] that we demand that a severely brain-damaged person should have the same rights as a university professor, or a physically disabled person the same rights as an Olympian sportsman. They are all 'human', whatever their intellectual and physical abilities.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.

Epictetus was a living example of the Stoic philosophy he embraced, which placed great value on the dignity of the self and a graceful acquiescence to those things over which the self had no control.

La religion est une insulte à la dignité humaine. Que ce soit avec ou sans elle, il y aura toujours des gens bien qui font de bonnes choses, et des mauvais qui font de mauvaises choses. Mais pour que des gens bien agissent mal, il faut la religion.

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.

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!

El consuelo verdadero, puesto que solo existe para mí un consuelo verdadero, aquel que me dice que soy un hombre libre, un individuo inviolable, un ser soberano dentro de mis límites.

Por isso, é lícito que lhe seja dito aquilo que disseram, certa ocasião, a alguém: aquele que não teme a vida, também não a amará; aquele que não teme a morte, também não poderá morrer com dignidade; aquele que não teme a si mesmo, também não amará a nenhum outro.

a gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say..

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.