Quotes About Dignity

I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.

I looked at him as he turned and walked away and I saw a man who'd learnt nothing and forgotten nothing, a coward without dignity or honour or respect

Insisting on maintaining dignity at all costs is paralyzing. Mistakes are informative, and so is playing the fool

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

Eventually she will die the way all old people in America die. . . from humiliation, incontinence, boredom and neglect.

If a man feels unimportant or disrespected, he will have little motivation for improving himself.

Um grande homem demonstra sua grandeza pela forma como trata os pequenos", disse o filósofo escocês Thomas Carlyle.

PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.

Ahora estoy convencida de que no puede lograrse nada bueno, y sí puede hacerse mucho daño, si uno le dice directamente a una persona que está equivocada. Sólo se consigue despojar a esa persona de su autodignidad, y uno queda como un entrometido.

No tengo derecho a decir o hacer nada que disminuya a un hombre ante sí mismo. Lo que importa no es lo que yo pienso de él, sino lo que él piensa de sí mismo. Herir a un hombre en su dignidad es un crimen

have not earned the right to call him a more casual name.

Treasures are directly connected to our spirit, or will, and thus to our dignity as persons. It is, for example, very important for parents to respect the "treasure space" of children. It lies right at the center of the child's soul, and great harm can be done if it is not respected and even fostered.

Shalom is shattered by sin, by the intrusion of a lie, a distortion of the truth that mars the pleasure of being naked, transparent, trusting and true. ... shattering occurs when our dignity os assaulted and death enters to divide and destroy.

One does not go to Vatican City with one's ass hanging out.

He had grown fond of the old proprietress, Mrs. Matalov, who had been a magician's assistant back in the 1930s, and who now, even at ninety-three, had the stoic dignity of a beautiful woman who was about to be cut in half.

infant. There was no shame in being seen, no disgrace in being human.

Glorious beyond compare is the heavenly city. There, victory is truth, dignity is holiness, peace is happiness, life is eternity" (ll:29).

I don't think that we have any right to have a sort of generalized criticism, if not hatred, of the people who hated us, because then we only descend to the level of those people who persecuted us for so many years. New

when we hope to be a You, being treated like an It, as though we do not matter, carries a particularly harsh sting.

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!

I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you wheeled me into that operating room!

The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person." He

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in their private treasury, but it was-I am certain-echoes of that idea that had been sounding in the chambers of my mind from the time we had arrived in Chicago. I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!