Quotes About Dignity

I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now. Except - added Nicholas, hastily, after a short silence - except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect.

What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies

I had not been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in him. The fashion of his dress could no more come in its way when he spoke these words, than it could come in its way in Heaven. He touched me gently on the forehead, and went out. As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighbouring streets, but he was gone.

En cuanto a ella, era digna pareja en toda la extensión de la palabra. Si no es éste un gran elogio, decidme otro mejor, y lo emplearé.

First, they contend that compassion makes euthanasia morally mandatory. We wouldn't let our dog continue to scream for years with uncontrolled pain: we'd take it to the vet to be put down. Why should we deny to humans what basic decency makes us do to our dogs? And second, they emphasize autonomy. Our lives are our own, they say. We can decide what to do with them. If we choose to end them, that's our business.

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Character is higher than intellect.

...but I assure you that there are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Meridian sunbeams tempt him to unfold His radiant glories, azure, green and gold: He treads as if, some solemn music near, His measured step were govern'd by his ear; And seems to say—Ye meaner fowl, give place, I am all splendour, dignity, and grace!

He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

The true beggar is the true king.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Look on yourself as a citizen in a kingdom of persons, he advised. Act always as if the maxim of your action could become a universal law, always treating mankind, as much in your own person as in that of another, as an end, never as a means.3

The greatest battle is not physical but psychological. The demons telling us to give up when we push ourselves to the limit can never be silenced for good. They must always be answered by the quiet the steady dignity that simply refuses to give in. Courage. We all suffer. Keep going.

Always be classy. Never be crazy.

If vou choose the airline of autonomy you're going to have to end up where you don't want to be, illogical, immoral, unfree with no dignity. And at that point the choice is between life and death. Spiritual life and death, moral life and death, intellectual life and death.

Those who wish to gain dignity in the eyes of the world's intellectuals by wearing the badge of "neutrality" only do so at the expense of refusing to be set apart by God's truth.

the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.

Understand telling a Woman to "smile" is an imposition and a demand you have no right to make.

If you have to ask for respect, you're not gonna get it.

Uncle Tom' did not originate in fiction. Nor did he die with the Emancipation proclamation. He is perpetuated and immortalized in the type of leadership that sells the Negro for a few 'sound American dollars.