Quotes About Dignity

Human dignity is something one need not look for in the world of capitalists. V. I. Lenin

We don't think of this as a place where people come to die," the gravely cheerful intake counselor had said to us. "We think of it as a place where people come to live!" "To live dyingly,

Every life matters. Even if it's "them.

not how it works. People with really good self-worth think they're the same size as everybody else, and they never make anybody else feel small. Any time somebody tries to act like they're more than you are, deep down they're afraid they're less.

That is what our Fuhrer maintains- that some are more worthy of life than others. Indeed, he asserts that an elite few in the world are worthy of life and procreation. Ask yourself, if you do not believe that to be true why is it not? If this child is not able to contribute to society in the same way you and I are able, does it make her less valuable? How do you know?

Never let them see you sweat.

Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home—it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom. I will not lightly surrender it.

Do not mind my rough old tongue. I have grown too bent with age for any further bowing.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Obra de tal modo que cada uno de tus actos sea digno de convertirse en un recuerdo

People are ashamed, not of the injustices they do, but of those they receive. And so, in order that the unjust person should be ashamed, there is no other way than to give as good as one gets.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

awkwardness, there were traces of grace and strength as he

Aprenderás el desprecio ante la pequeñez de los poderosos, conocerás el respeto ante la grandeza de los pequeños.

When we stop drawing a line between moral failings and evil, between the very things that make us human and those that take away our humanity—when we lose sight of mercy and mistake it for weakness, all is lost.

Los muertos eran respetables, pero los vivos valían un carajo.

Fourteenthly, if infinite active power doth actuate corporeal and dimensional being, this being must necessarily be infinite; otherwise there would be derogation from the nature and dignity both of creator and of creation.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

Occorre compiere fino in fondo il proprio dovere, qualunque sia il sacrificio da sopportare, costi quel che costi, perché è in ciò che sta l'essenza della dignità umana.

Admiradores A admiração, mesmo a mais calorosa, tem sempre um subentendido de condescendência, isto é, a certeza de uma superioridade.

There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing.

Nella vita" mi disse tornando a leggere il giornale "il valore della gente non lo si misura né con la stadera né col metro">>.