Quotes About Dignity

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.

The greatest possesion of man is character

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

The Jew bows before no man only God

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.