Quotes About Dignity

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.

the community, and respected. She

your goddamn business how rich I am. That's the

people he writes about demand respect, they have boundaries, most of the characters don't take crap from anyone. The ones who do always take it on the chin and have to learn the lesson.

you have to show him respect." "He

We're all pretty much able to deal even with the worst that life can fire at us, if we simply admit that it is very difficult. I think that's the whole of the answer. We make our way, and effort and time give us cushion and dignity. And as we age, we're riding higher in the saddle, seeing more terrain. So it's an epiphany after all. You have it in your hand the whole time.

la libertad comienza cuando la gente se libera de la violencia, la intimidación y otros actos degradantes. Las personas deben ser capaces de adoptar libremente decisiones sobre su vida y tener los medios para llevarlas a cabo sin la amenaza de un castigo inaceptable o unas sanciones sociales draconianas.

Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails

Nothing's as awful as slavery...

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.

And making sure this is a place where our humanity is respected, where our opinions are dignified, where our voices are heard—this is as important as any revenue, any stock price, any endeavor undertaken here.

If the farmer gets forty times the commodity rate, then what had been a break-even endeavor becomes a profession—and everyone involved could live with dignity and pride.

Dignity is an affection, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

April 20, 1939 1' The [Nazi] movement for freeing the world from the Jews is a movement for the renaissance of human dignity. The all-wise and Almighty God is behind this movement. —Fr. Franjo Kralik in a Zagreb Catholic newspaper, 19412 RIDES THE BEAST

If you think you are being underpaid, underappreciated, and underdeveloped in your current job, then you are being hurt as a human being--and that is unacceptable.

Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.