Quotes About Dignity

Q: What is the best thing men do? A: To be kind, to be proud, to be fearless.

The hoary judge put his mouth close to his ear, panted for a moment, made the announcement and slowly moved away, as though ungluing himself.

soha nem szabad elfelejtenünk, hogy az ember ereje, méltósága és öröme abban rejlik, hogy dacolva megveti azokat az árnyakat és csillagokat, amelyek elrejtik elÅ'lünk titkainkat.

C] an any sane man imagine that they will lightly lay aside their yearning and contentedly become he were of wood and drawers of water?

individuals seek recognition of their value, not as "labor," "personnel," or "human resources" but as human beings who are treated with full respect and dignity and appreciated for their individual worth regardless of hierarchical level.

Have luncheon there this afternoon, all you jobless. Why not? Dine with some of the men and women who got rich off of your labor, who clip coupons with clean white fingers because your hands dug coal, drilled stone, sewed garments, poured steel to let other people draw dividends and live easy.

She worked for the Studevants, who treated her like a dog. She stood it. Had to stand it; or work for poorer white folks who would treat her worse; or go jobless.

Bartender, tell this man to vacate my person.

What shall I tell my children?...You tell me- 'Cause freedom ain't freedom when a man ain't free.

What right has anyone to say That I Must throw out pieces of my heart For pay?

I won't be target practice in whatever little pissing contest you've got going on with him

I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

Don't look like a fool with your pants on the ground!

Malo Mori Quam Foedari: I would rather die then be dishonored.

Respect is greater from a distance.

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody!

I looked at Georgia over the top of my iced tea. "Why does Mr. Elliott want to fire you?" "I refused to go out with him when I first started here.

Pero en ciertos casos es más digno dejarse llevar de un impulso ciego, provocado por un gran amor, que oponerse a él.

The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. The loss of it can carry a man off as surely as thirst, hunger, exposure, and asphyxiation, and with greater cruelty.

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Few societies treasured dignity, and feared humiliation, as did the Japanese, for whom a loss of honor could merit suicide. This is likely one of the reasons why Japanese soldiers in World War II debased their prisoners with such zeal, seeking to take from them that which was most painful and destructive to lose.

The crash of Green Hornet had left Louie and Phil in the most desperate physical extremity, without food, water, or shelter. But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity.

For these men, the central struggle of postwar life was to restore their dignity and find a way to see the world as something other than menacing blackness.