Quotes About Dignity

Any wise man fears open spitefulness, whether it be in seriousness or in jest.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

It's a shame to mix sports and politics.

But, I have greatest respect for women, and I never ever mock them or the institution of marriage or a committed relationship!

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance.

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

You can't go around telling people what a monster your mother was on a day to day basis. It's unseemly.

Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.

More than anything, you have to respect the game and do things the right way.

Honestly, people can write anything they want about me and I could care less, but once you start writing stuff about my family, my wife and my daughter and son or my mother-in-law, then you're drawing a line.

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

The insanity defense is not merciful. Involuntary mental hospitalization is not a treatment. Both are coercive methods of social control. Both rest on attributing an absence of mens rea to the actor. Both result in the protected person's being deprived of liberty. Both function as tactical weapons in psychiatry's war on dignity, liberty, and responsibility.

Pay no attention to them, ladies, I beg of you, said Gant scathingly. They are the lowest of the low, the whiskey-besotted dregs of humanity, who deserve to bear not even the name of men, so far have they retrograded backwards. With a flourishing sweep of his slouch hat he departed into the warehouse. By God! said Ambrose Nethersole approvingly. It takes W. O. to tie a knot in the tail of the English language. It always did.

Until the sixteenth century, men—priests, academics, judges, merchants, princes, and many others—wore skirts, or robes. For men, the skirt was a 'sign of leisure and a symbol of dignity,' writes Quentin Bell. This is still true for men in high positions. After all, can you imagine the Pope, or Professor Dumbledore, wearing trousers? Have you ever seen a depiction of God wearing pants?

It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

For the most part they carried themselves with poise, a kind of dignity. Now and then, however, there were times of panic, when they squealed or wanted to squeal but couldn't, when they twitched and made moaning sounds and covered their heads and said Dear Jesus and flopped around on the earth and fired their weapons blindly and cringed and sobbed and begged for the noise to stop and went wild and made stupid promises to themselves and to God and to their mothers and fathers, hoping not to die.

A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

My cause, first, midst, last, and always," he wrote, "was and is that of the black man; not because he is black, but because he is a man.

The grand admiral was smart and subtle, but never used his brilliance to show up or humiliate anyone. He demanded results, but never perfection, and had amazing stores of patience for those who were truly working to their fullest ability. He cared about his people, to the point of standing up for them even against the disapproval of powerful men like Lord Vader.

People with big names aren't always big people.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value.