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Quotes About Dignity

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.
~ Unknown
So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is -- we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.
~ Unknown
Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others. (1 Thessalonians 4:11–12 NLT)
~ Unknown
All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
~ Unknown
Respect is not ever assigned it's earned.
~ Linda Tripp
Women, and children, are to be cherished and respected, not terrorized.
~ Linda Wisdom
One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
~ Unknown
We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.
~ Unknown
One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.
~ Unknown
I see now what they mean by "holding your head high," and I am sometimes surprised by how much interior transformation a ramrod posture can afford. When I stand physically proud, I feel a small measure less mortified.
~ Lionel Shriver
Cheating,' Nollie agreed, 'is restorative. It maintains your dignity. Breaking a rule a day keeps the doctor away far better than a fucking apple.
~ Lionel Shriver
honor begins in the heart and works its way out until it is expressed through our actions.
~ Lisa Bevere
Marcus…you are a healthy man of thirty-five—and you didn't take one tiny peep at Miss Bowman standing there in her drawers?" "I don't peep, Livia. I either take a good look at something, or I don't. Peeping is for children or deviants.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law... are universal values of the human spirit.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
~ Jonathan Sacks
The enemies of our people have chosen the moment when I am knocked off my feet with sickness to stab me in the back because they know what the territorial integrity, national unity and the dignity of this great Zaire mean to me. I have devoted my life to defending these sacred values.
~ Mobutu Sese Seko
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
~ Isaiah Berlin
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
~ Virgil
I support Children's Hospital of Los Angeles through Disney Channel and Britti Cares International in support of children with various diseases and illnesses and donate my time with pride and dignity.
~ Kyle Massey
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
~ Bernard Barton
The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
~ William Gurnall
In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind a veil as if they were impure.
~ Marine Le Pen
Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet. This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar's home has sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council.
~ Hugo Chavez