Quotes About Dignity

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man, when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.

Man was his high and only title, and a higher title cannot be given him

The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

The condition of women is therefore at the heart of the question of humanity itself, here, there, and everywhere.

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance.

Humility was never a loser.

What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to walk with God every day?

Vemos aquí la honra y dignidad del creyente. Tiene el nombre de Dios escrito sobre sí (Ap. 3:12), al Espíritu Santo que habita en él (2 Ti. 1:14), y una guardia de ángeles que le asiste.

Camila had intended to be perfunctory and if possible impudent, but now she was struck for the first time with the dignity of the old woman. The mercer's daughter could carry herself at times with all the distinction of the Montemayors and when she was drunk she wore the grandeur of Hecuba.

She had been through hard straits herself and assumed that persons of quality did not discuss them. Steel exists to support pressure.

the master of the house don't pinch decent, self-respecting girls when he meets them in a dark corridor. I mention no names and make no charges.

After all, a girl's biggest asset is her virtue.

We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

When the prison gates slam behind an inmate, he does not lose his human quality; his mind does not become closed to ideas; his intellect does not cease to feed on a free and open interchange of opinions; his yearning for self-respect does not end; nor is his quest for self-realization concluded. If anything, the needs for identity and self-respect are more compelling in the dehumanizing prison environment.

I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

He called me an asshole and said, "I'll bury you!" like some comic book villain. I wanted to fucking scream my head off—I'm not your toy! Your puppet! Your whore! I'm a human goddamn being and I expect to be treated as such! Instead I told him I didn't want to be buried, I want to be cremated. And I want my ashes stored in a disco ball he can hang over his desk.

I tell their stories here to do all of them some small honor. Their lives and, sometimes, their deaths speak to what we are capable of as average people in the face of evil and horror.

Only help her to know—help make it so there is cause for her to know—that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride