Quotes About Dignity

the sacred reality is not simply transcendent, "out there," but is enshrined in every single human being, who must, therefore, be treated with absolute honor and respect.

When people are consistently treated with the utmost respect, they learn to feel worthy of reverence; they realize that they have absolute value. So

It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others—even our enemies—is a denial of our common humanity.

Ye'll wish a bath this evening, and while I don't mind servin' as yer cook, I'm not washin' yer back. I won't ask if of you, I promise.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

kneel Your Grace, he said curtly, Unless you presume to tell a man of God that he may also fuck himself? Rhian nearly lost her balance, coming off the last dais step.

You will treat me with respect. He didn't say anything for a moment. What does that mean? he finally asked. She looked over at him. Do I need to explain that, your lordship? I would think an earl of your reputed stature would know the meaning of respect.

Where all meaning disappears, and all certainty vanishes, something arises deep inside man: the self-preservation of his essential identity. This identity preserves itself through endurance - I have to face my destiny in silence - and through the courage to live and the courage to die with dignity.

El gobierno del Estado moderno no es más que una junta que administra los negocios comunes de toda la clase burguesa (...) para no dejar subsistir otro vinculo entre los hombres que el frío interés, el cruel 'pago al contado' (...) Ha hecho de la dignidad personal un simple valor de intercambio (...) ha establecido una explotación abierta, descarada, directa y brutal.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

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There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?