Quotes About Dignity

Unpaid work never commands respect.

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

Work, which is considered an expression of a person's value, also becomes a part of one's spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Torture doesn't work.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.

Nobody wants to be a laughing stock.

I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.

We carved it in stone: no matter the place of your birth or the hue of your skin, you can live in California in safety, dignity, and, yes, sanctuary.

As for how do I respond to those who want to throw stones, well, I don't.

We should honor - not attack - those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.

I will never stoop low to do certain things on camera.

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.