Quotes About Dignity

Regardless of how we might feel about another human being, they are made in God's image and of infinite value and worth.

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

A good death does honor to a whole life.

Am prea pu?in? via?? ca s?-mi pot îng?dui a o mânji prin compromisuri...

Ce râzi, domnule? întreb? nemul?umit Gogu Apostolescu. De ce râzi? Râzi de mine? - Sigur c? da, puiule, zise Titel Negruzzi. Dar de cine vrei s? râd? De mine? Ar fi nedemn s? râd de mine tot eu; eu m? respect, mo?er.

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Richard didn't want to put on any defense at all. He had continually told his lawyers the trial was a circus and a farce. He refused to take it seriously or give it the dignity of putting on a defense. Clark strongly urged him to plead insanity and try to show the court through expert medical witnesses that he was crazy, but Richard told him he would never plead insanity. He had his pride, his dignity.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn

And isn't that what all boys want and all men, too? Just to be taken seriously?

Where there is nothing sacred, there is nothing.

No matter what our job title, no matter what our pay, we can choose to approach our work with dignity and care.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

For most of my life i have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make up stories about me in which I am either a saint or a whore. But I am above these judgments, I am a Queen.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Ma io sono un uomo che preferisce perdere piuttosto che vincere con modi sleali e spietati. Grave colpa da parte mia, lo so! E il bello è che ho la sfacciataggine di difendere tale colpa, di considerarla quasi una virtù…

e noi stiamo bene a sentirci italiani e ne siamo anche fieri e orgogliosi che capiamo che questi legami qui sono nati tra la gente che lavora mica trattati a tavolino tra diplomatici o ministri del cazzo, che di loro ci vergognamo sì,altrochè.

In an affluent society there ought to be an income floor under every man below which society will not allow him to go – and this ought to come as a right and not as a charity.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.

Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.