Quotes About Dignity

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.