Quotes About Dignity

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Of whom the world was not worthy.

The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.

Geblendet vom Gefühl stolzer Kühnheit, mit dem das erste und unvollständige Wissen den jungen Menschen erfüllt, und begeistert von den Ideen vom Recht der Völker auf Freiheit und des Einzelmenschen auf Vergnügen und Würde, kamen diese Jünglinge aus den großen Städten, von den Gymnasien und Universitäten, auf denen sie lernten.

Fuck you. I am more than just a pair of ovaries you can put a ring on.

Sometimes the unspeakable can come from the decent. And sometimes, it's possible to make yourself decent out of the unspeakable.

He showed me that words can do more than tell stories, they can heal, and as long as you live inside the dignity of what you write, no one can take that away that what matters most. Those who hate you can kill you, but they cannot destroy you or the ideals that matter to you. To be decent writer you had to give yourself over to the power of words and a love of storytelling. (203)

Testing, she lifted her hips, let them fall. Oh, for God's sake. We can't do this on a talking bed. Everybody in the house will know what's going on in here. Enjoying himself, he nuzzled at her throat. I believe they already suspect we have sex. Maybe, but that's different than having the bed yell out, 'Whoopee! Was it any wonder he adored her? he thought. Watching her face, he trailed a finger over her breast. We'll have quiet, dignified sex. If sex is dignified it's not being done right.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love.

If sex is dignified it's not being done right.

Eve leaned in again. "I am a ranking officer. If you call me a bitch, you'd better damn well put Lieutenant in front of it.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.' " Looking at Roarke now, Morris managed a small smile. "Well said.

give details, professional courtesy

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.

Because death's an insult anytime. When somebody hurries it along, that's the biggest insult of all.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Decency: the inexplicable: the ground of all ethics. Things we do not do. We do not stare when the soul leaves the body, but veil our eyes with tears or cover them with our hands. We do not stare at scars, which are places where the soul has struggled to leave and been forced back, closed up, sewn in.

They do us honor by seeing gods in us, and we respond by treating them like things.

No one beats me, no one starves me, no one spits on me. How can I regard myself as a victim of prosecution when my sufferings are so petty? Yet they are all the more degrading for their pettiness.

A uno le gustaría seguir sintiendo cierto respeto por cualquier persona que prefiere la muerte al deshonor

If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.

Don't you want to find out who else you are—other than a receptionist? She frowned. There is honor in all works. And maybe there is greatness waiting for you—if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.