Quotes About Dignity

I]appreciate a woman who knows when she's being coerced

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ...

Van bizonyos szakadt méltóság a magányos bukásban.

I don't mind being killed, but I don't want them to touch me.

He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it.

Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them.

Let's say that you have this mystical right to cut my legs off. But the right to ridicule me afterwards because I am a cripple — no, that I think you haven't got. And that's the right you hold most dearly, isn't it? You must be able to despise the people you exploit.

La conscience de l'identité entre tous les hommes est au fondement du droit à l'alimentation. Personne ne saurait tolérer la destruction de son semblable par la faim sans mettre en danger sa propre humanité, son identité. (p. 122)

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

We're slaves, not idiots. That's all you have to understand.

If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

But I see in the clothes a symbol of continuing life. And proof that I still want to be myself. If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

Whelks are strange and comforting. They have no notion of community life and they breed very quietly. But they have a strong sense of personal dignity. Even lying face down in a tray of vinegar there is something noble about a whelk. Which cannot be said for everybody.

Only humans can know what it means to strip a human being of being human.

A meaningless life for a human being has none of the dignity of animal unselfconsciousness; we cannot simply eat, sleep, hunt and reproduce - we are meaning-seeking creatures. The Western world has done away with religion but not with religious impulses; we seem to need some higher purpose, some point to our lives - money and leisure, social progress, are just not enough.

Take no notice of anyone you don't respect.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.

Renoncer à sa liberté c'est renoncer à sa qualité d'homme

Renoncer à sa liberté c'est renoncer à sa qualité d'homme, aux droits de l'humanité, même à ses devoirs.

Unii m? vor g?si caraghios, semeÅ£: puÅ£in îmi pas?! Trebuie s? ÅŸtiu a înfrunta râsul ÅŸi ocara, cu condiÅ£ia s? nu le merit.

Above all he is jealous of his own self-respect; this is his most valued possession and it would be a real loss to him were he to acquire the respect of others at the expense of his own.

You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.

You know you're down and out when the Okies laugh at you.