Quotes About Dignity

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

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.

When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.

God, it's nice to be treated like a man.