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Quotes About Dignity

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
~ Mary Gordon
I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.
~ Jean Smart
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.
~ Meg Ryan
The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
~ Bryant H. McGill
When you meet people you don't want them to look at you and say 'poor you.' I just wanted to be treated like a normal person.
~ Gianluca Vialli
I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.
~ George H. W. Bush
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
~ Mae West
I'm a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don't need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming.
~ Ivana Trump
To us, mastering the atomic fuel cycle and generating nuclear power is as much about diversifying our energy resources as it is about who Iranians are as a nation, our demand for dignity and respect, and our consequent place in the world.
~ Hassan Rouhani
It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.
~ Madeline Brewer
I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.
~ Stephen Stills
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I do object to being called a Nazi.
~ Anna Soubry
It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.
~ Martha Nussbaum
I am not against the idea of looking sexy. But I don't like women being looked at as mere objects of sex.
~ Padmapriya Janakiraman
Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.
~ John Dickerson
Women should be looked at as much more than objects of glamour. We have a lot more to offer.
~ Sameera Reddy
My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.
~ Arlo Guthrie
I believe that every human being has a right to shelter. I also believe that when we provide that shelter, you have an obligation to use it, and I enforced that.
~ Kevin Faulconer
I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.
~ Martin Freeman
The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
~ Maria Monk