Quotes About Dignity

A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness.

Any man who calls my car a heap might as well call my wife a bitch-if I had one.

If government is to respect people's autonomy, or to treat them with dignity, it should not deprive them of freedom. It should treat them as adults, rather than children or infants.

It might also count as an insult to dignity, and a form of infantilization, if the government constantly reminds people of things that they already know.

You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he were a complete idiot, drooling at the mouth, he'd still be a better person then you.

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul

It was the day I was going to take hold of my life. I would once and for all take back what was rightfully mine: my freedom, my dignity and my pride.

I don't think any woman minds knowing she looks good, as long as the admiration isn't expressed in an offensive way and doesn't come from a disgusting source.

You have to keep it so you don't lose anything if he decides he's not interested." Amina was interested in saving face.

I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

I want the ladies to respect themselves.

Don't think that because you have to go down in the wash-tub that you are any less a lady!

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

I have met Sunil Dutt-ji two or three times and though I don't have a special memory of these meetings, I know that he was a gentleman and a fantastic human being.

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

By indignities men come to dignities.

My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights.

I've never messed around with any fans. I've never yelled at anybody.

My name is all I have, so I don't want that to be messed up from a game of football.

I admire Messi: he's never complained to me in any game we played, but I've also never asked him for his jersey and never would. I came to win, not to say I played against Messi.