Quotes About Dignity

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

To the powerful masters we repre­sent all that is absurd, negative, irreverent, and disruptive in this America that they so despise and scorn. But on the other hand, to the great mass of the American people (I'm referring to Our America, which is everything south of the Rio Bravo)-these peoples derisively called "mestizos"-we represent everything noble, sincere, and combative.

I am short and plain and far too particular in my tastes to settle for any man desperate enough to pay me homage.

There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.

Honor is inconvenient and absolute. Honor is looking it square in the face and taking it on the chin. It's having the guts to break someones heart so as to avoid fucking with his or her head.

When my mother asked him for more morphine, she asked for it in a way that I have never heard anyone ask for anything. A mad dog. He did not look at her when she asked him this, but at his wristwatch. He held the same expression on his face regardless of the answer. Sometimes he gave it to her without a word, and sometimes he told her no in a voice as soft as his penis in his pants.

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobodys damn business.

it's better for people to shut up rather than say something nasty.

Live with dignity. Live for others, that is how one earns respect

as with money in your wallet the world gives you some respect and lets you breathe.

Beyond a point, people want money to buy respect,' she would tell me when I was a kid. 'Respect, however, can't be bought. You have to earn it.

Agi como um esnobe, que como vocês devem saber, significa indivíduo sem nobreza.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

I will fight no more forever

They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Through the many challenges both professionally and personally, she was the essence of grace, civility and dignity.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people — a black people — who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.

I don't think it will do any harm if he is made aware that we are not a bunch of idiots.

How many times, have I had to seat women whom I received at audiences next to me, rather than facing me, in order to avoid general embarrassment? Nothing should compel us to suffer such trials. It puts the nerves of men and the modesty of women to a severe test.

You can't just go around touching someone's butt uninvited and expect to walk away without the owner of that butt using your face to break a few tables, right?

There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are.

I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is ego. - Dhirubhai Ambani

Dignity and honor are gifts: "[O God], You exalt whomever You will, and You debase whomever You will" (QURAN, 3:26). Proofs of this Divine law abound. There are many accounts, for example, of people who were once in positions of authority and wealth, who then find themselves paupers completely stripped of their former glory, reduced, in many instances, to wards of the state. God is powerful over all things, and all good, authority, and provision are in His hand, not ours.