Quotes About Dignity

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

There is honor between bitches

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form.

A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.

Lay aside the thirst for honor from others and seek to honor others instead

He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.

Rather skin a carcass for pay in the public streets than be idly dependent on charity.

The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own.

There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.

At once more social and more self-reliant than their British counterparts, they were men whose dignity had not been destroyed by a culture of dependence.

self-respect can encourage people to make the best of a bad job, but dependency on the state has destroyed the basis of self-respect.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading down any of their own number.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.

I'd rather be a fool than a vulture feeding off other people.

Humans are born with human rights. Those human rights are inherent—