Quotes About Dignity

A única arma de que um pobre dispõe para conservar a sua dignidade é instilar o medo.

There was some nobility in being poor, but absolutely none in being poor because you were an idiot.

It's why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn't have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid-a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same of them.

Everybody has laws he lives by, I expect. I have mine as well." "What laws?" Bond Rogers was dismayed. Yet she waited, evidently as curious as her son. "I will not be laid a hand on. I will not be wronged. I will not stand for an insult. I don't do these things to others. I require the same from them.

Ask the way to the Ladies Room and you're "processed." Freedom of choice, my backside.

I don't have to wear a three-piece suit to be a good person, but I would like everything about me-even my clothes-to reflect a certain uncompromising integrity.

the desire for privacy is shared by us all as an essential, not ancillary, part of what it means to be human. We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be, away from the judgmental eyes of others. Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

However, because death is the only absolute equality among human beings on earth, even the ignoblest and the most welcome instance of it deserves a little ceremonious thought.

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self worth defending.

Prostitution isn't the oldest profession, it's the oldest oppression.

I aim not at getting honour but at contributing towards making society and its people worthy of honour.

We can be absolved for falling for what we found in place but not for failing to rise up for what we deserve.

Las sociedades más agradables son aquellas en que reina un sereno respeto mutuo entre sus miembros

Noble birth is an accident of fortune, noble actions characterise the great.

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

Men and women of integrity understand intrinsically that theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth, unashamed before anyone. Embodied within this simple principle and character trait rests the foundational virtue of every person and of every society.

Within us is something of divinity. One who has this knowledge and permits it to influence his life will not stoop to do a mean or cheap or tawdry thing.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

Draft beer, not people.

I may be a liar, but at least I'm a gentleman.