Quotes About Dignity

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

I thought: How dare you lecture me about history and loyalty, you slave? We have paid bitterly for people like you. Who have you ever been loyal to, apart from yourself and your family and your caste?

You respect yourself, it makes it harder for others to disrespect you.

la sua ragion d'essere è ribadire l'uguaglianza nel lavoro, l'onestà e la libertà, fondandosi sulla convinzione che lavoro, uguaglianza e libertà sono un diritto di tutti, su questa terra.

Let's be kind and attentive to the individual man - whether he's a bishop, a peasant, an industrial magnate, a convict in the Sakhalin Islands or a waiter in a restaurant. Let's begin with respect, compassion and love for the individual - or we'll never get anywhere.

I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro goes to school, he earns a degree for knowing the white man, but not for knowing himself . All he learns about himself is slavery. Slavery is not a history of a man; it's a misfortune of a race of people. The black man needs to know the dignity of our race. The only way he will get this knowledge is to take it for himself.

People are not resources that you consume.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity...

Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God.

A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and may affront it.

Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.

Il y a des gens qui paieraient pour se vendre

In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name.

He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned: he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there.

The just man frowns, but never sneers. We understand anger, not malice.

owing money was the beginning of slavery ..... a creditor was worse than a boss, for a boss only owns your person but a creditor owns your dignity and can slap it around.

I don't want your money, said she.

Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Ignominy thirsts for consideration.

El soldado de hierro vale tanto como el duque de hierro.

Each time he uttered the word 'Monsieur' in his mild, compassionable voice, the man's face lighted up. The courtesy, to the ex-convict, was like fresh water to a shipwrecked man. Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Il paraît que les paroles des hommes forts doivent toujours recevoir de l'approche de la mort une certaine grandeur.

for it seems that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable.