Quotes About Dignity

Eine Hure ist eine Dame, die es für Geld macht, was mir viel mehr einleuchtet, als es umsonst zu machen.

Sellaista henkilöä kohtaan tunnetaan aina kunnioitusta, joka osaa pitää suunsa kiinni. Luullaan että sellainen tietää paljon ja elää hirveän jännittävästi.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

Don't be second place to anybody. Don't be that fallback person who's always there. Once there's someone else in your place, leave. You are not an option.

If society treated sex with any dignity or respect, both pornographers and prostitutes would have status, which they obviously had at one time. The sexual women of antiquity were the artists and writers of sexual love. Since organized religions have made all forms of sexual pleasure evil, no modern equivalent exists today.

I nazisti non sono mai riusciti ad inculcarmi l'idea che essere ebreo è un peccato.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave .

WITH ALL, COOPERATION. FOR ALL, RESPECT. ABOVE ALL, HONOR.

Isn't this exciting? I'm so excited I can hardly STAND IT. That's why I'm this color, by the way. I have been trying all morning to turn myself something more dignified and I can't do it; my scales are all like, YAY WE'RE REALLY HERE! and will not listen to me.

Hey, igloo-face, that's not cool,

You're not nothing.

Where there was no equality there was no companionship: when a man was obliged to say 'Yes, sir,' his agreement was of no worth even if it happened to be true.

I have noticed that some old men lose their sense of honour, and will cheerfully avow the strangest acts.

The Captain Has An Uncommon Genteel Figgar

When you win, say nothing, when you lose say less.

When you accept delivery on truckloads of disrespectful treatment, you are teaching immature people that they can continue to misuse you.

Medicine becomes pragmatic solidarity when it is delivered with dignity to the destitute sick... By including social and economic rights in the struggle for human rights, we help to protect those most likely to suffer the insults of structural violence.

Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm. If assaults on dignity are anything but random in distribution or course, whose interests are served by the suggestion that they are haphazard?

But really it's condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they're old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese. Banged up people don't want your pity. They just want to be treated like everyone else. Mockery, when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.

Borges, who said, "Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve.