Quotes About Dignity

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

religious conviction, and the truths Christianity teaches about the inalienable dignity of every human life, can be a dynamic, creative force, bending history in a more human direction.

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The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

Well," said Larry with dignity, "it may give you pleasure to be woken at half-past three in the morning by a pigeon who seems intent on pushing his rectum into your eye...

My mother had that talent for endowing any place she was with dignity and charm. She behaved elegantly and politely, and thus hoped to change the world.

the real question isn't whether it's bombs versus muskets or wagons versus automobiles. It still comes down to more basic thins like people's right to life, to liberty, and to peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

One does not have to be a priest to be a man!

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.

A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Every man has his moral backside too, which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.