Quotes About Dignity

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

Men are not potatoes!

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.