Quotes About Dignity

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

The more you act like a lady, the more he will act like a gentleman.

when the createdness of the other person is not viewed as necessary as our own—then there is no reason (beyond expediency) to treat the other as a person. All injustice and cruelty come, basically, from this distorted view of reality.

If you treat someone under your control like a dolt, he will react like a dolt; treat him like an animal, and he will respond like an animal; treat him as an object of contempt, and he will become filled with a self-contempt that must sooner or later erupt in rage, hate and violence.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

In London her grief was retracted into sudden realisations of her loss. She had thought that sorrow would be her companion for many years and had planned for its entertainment. Now it visited her like sudden snow-storms, a hastening darkness across the sky, a transient whiteness and rigour cast upon her. She tried to recover the sentiment of renunciation which she had worn like a veil. It was gone, and gone with it was her sense of the dignity of bereavement.

Just because turtles dwell at your feet doesn't mean you should come down from your height and barter with, debate, or eat alongside them.

I am free. I am one of the few free people in this country of utterly transparent slavery. A slavery covered by a sloppy coat of contemporary varnish. I have fought a long and bloodless battle for this pitiable personal freedom. I fought for my freedom against the temptations, ambitions, and appetites witch drive everyone blindly on the slaughterhouse. To the so-called modern slaughterhouse for human dignity, honor, and for something else, too, which we forgot about a long time ago.

U was te? s? dobrzy, m?drzy, starzy ludzie. -Bywali u nas szlachetni, rozumni, godni starzy ludzie.

You can't force someone to respect you. But you can refuse to be disrespected.

He walked out without his money. The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.

The humiliation of being in a poor play, of playing a shabby role, of appearing before disgruntled audiences, if any, of being curdled by hostile reviews, can outrage all human dignity. Being caught in a long-run success is almost as bad. The fearful monotony, the boredom of saying the same words every night, at the same minute, has unhinged the mind of more than one actress.

Even if there is dishonor in the truth, Chevalier, less that dishonor if one confesses it in defence of his person.

Hun husket fillebyltene som en gang hadde vært menn, menn hvis søken etter et bedre liv hadde fått en æreløs slutt. Renspiste av kråker og dingoer, glemt og ikke sørget over. Pappa fortjente bedre.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

I'm not putting any deadlines on myself," Mart says with dignity, setting a heaped plate in front of Cal. "Not to suit you or anyone else. Now: get your laughing-tackle round that.

Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear.

How dare they discuss her as though she were a wayward child in need of a good strapping!

J'ai appris qu'il fallait dire "Paix!" à ceux qui lancent des cris de haine contre votre être, votre présence ou sur votre passage. Pas toujours facile. C'est le sens de toutes les spiritualités, le profond jihâd du cÅ"ur et de l'intelligence... Paix, oui, avec force, tranquilité et dignité, à tous les instigateurs de mensonges, d'hypocrisies et de guerres.

lady have that matters more than her reputation?" "I can think of lots of things," I said, but wasn't allowed to continue.

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

the smile bent into a smirk. "Tell me, do I look like someone who can't pay my bills?