Quotes About Dignity

I shook my head. Roy wasn't that type of man, although he had dignity in spades. But for a person like Roy, letting go wasn't a self-respecting option.

Don't make your daughter feel like she got to lay with who you want her to lay with, like you're some kind of pimp.

So long as we hold hatred for anyone," said Mr. Chisholm, marveling at his new thoughts, "we are not men at all. We are beasts. It is against the dignity of men that we should hate. It is against the ordinances of God.

Bernadette never learned that a restrained voice meant dignity and control of strong feeling or good manners, especially in women. She thought such a voice was servile, fit only for servants, and that the possessor was timid, humble, inferior, and worthy only of abuse and peremptory correction.

In the end they had lost everything, their freedom as men, their rights as men, their dignity as men, and had become nothing else but slaves of an omnipotent State, working endlessly, half-starved, half-clothed, half-sheltered in ruined buildings, endlessly spied upon, supervised, commanded by the Military and treated like dogs.

Si la clase media alcanzaba el derecho de voto, la escandalosa plebe romana, que vivía ociosamente gracias al dinero que pagaban gentes mucho más dignas que ella, tendría que buscarse trabajo y aceptar responsabilidades, dejando de ser bestias domesticadas que actuaban a capricho de sus dominadores sólo con la esperanza de obtener víveres gratis sin tener que mendigarlos.

Sophistication isn't what you wear, or who you know, Or pushing people down to get you where you wanna go.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Raising a child, she said, "puts you in touch, deeply, inescapably, daily, with some pretty heady issues: What is love and how do we get ours? Why does the world contain evil and pain and loss? How can we discover dignity and tolerance? Who is in power and why? What's the best way to resolve conflict?

Is it more respectful to treat him like a human being, or to accept that he isn't one?

I knew for certain that being accorded a biography isn't dependent on one's species or one's fame.

Memorably, he said, "I had rather have live vermin on my back than the tongue of one of these Washington women on my reputation.

A parent who is respectful to his children and teaches them with dignity and respect will be respected by his children.

Start small, I always reminded myself. It was in keeping with the respect for labour that my parents had instilled in me. My father had often said, "No labour is an insult, the lowest form is dignified and worthy of respect. Start from the lowest rung." Think big I reminded myself. My father also used to say, "It is important to think without limitations. Confining ideas stunt potential.

You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.

Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good.

I will never let another man disrespect me. I don't care if we sparring or fighting.

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.

Usually, family films have characters speaking with each other with much dignity and respect.

Like, I just feel like the way a man speaks to a woman - the way that people speak to each other - it's a respect thing.

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.