Quotes About Dignity

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Othman admired the boy's saintly composure, his innocent dignity. He knew he had made the right choice.

He looked tired and stooped and Daniel thought with some discomfort that all he lacked was a crown of thorns.

We should havest our sustenance, not beg for it!

The cloth fell from his back and he was an aloof and dignified courtier no longer, but a witch-boy, the creature of his childhood, he that sang the water spirits from their gnat-organized homes. Jadrin, as white and deadly as the hottest of consuming flames.

Once we had crossed the line that separated this unpredictable land from the normal world, I began to understand its symbolic nature. There was a weird beauty in the tumbled shapes beside the old road, and a kind of dignity.

Working in the fields is not in itself a degrading job. It's hard, but if you're given regular hours, better pay, decent housing, unemployment and medical compensation, pension plans—we have a very relaxed way of living. But the growers don't recognize us as persons. That's the worst thing, the way they treat you. Like we have no brains. Now we see they have no brains. They have only a wallet in their head. The more you squeeze it, the more they cry out.

Biped Now that you have hit me, I must dab at my mouth and smile quietly, or not smile at all, but in some way show I am noble, not base. And the dog inside, who whimpers so piteously, and would like to lick your hands —it feels so out of favour— that dog must be silenced before its howling betrays disgrace. But I am that dog. It was I who howled, I who was hurt. I felt the pain. And it is I who despised myself.

But there I was, in street clothes, walking into the California Institution for Women, knowing I'd be able to walk out. As I passed through the doors into the yard, I felt a rush of emotion. I was here with purpose, in possession of my dignity, my individuality, my own power—all the things that had been stripped from me the last time I stood in this yard.

Americans broadly consent to funding clinical research because they believe in the promise of medical research. But people support scientific work only if they trust that it serves societal interests, respects patient dignity and operates with guardrails.

We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs.

There will be no name-calling when I disagree with anyone, no disparaging remarks toward anyone, no taking sole credit for collective achievements or blaming others when things go wrong.

In 'Maheshinte...' fight is the central aspect of the story - a man who is assaulted physically in front of his own townsfolk and how he fails miserably. Humiliated, fighting back his honor becomes the sole reason behind his existence.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.