Quotes About Dignity

No matter how unattractive your job is, once you are earning with honesty and dignity you need not care what people think of you in your work uniform.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

I have vowed to make my administration's educational priorities - indeed, priorities in any issue area - abundantly clear. Students come first, and hardworking faculty deserve every respect and dignity.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.

I'm saying that people who are enmeshed in situations of subjugation and have to live, have to find ways to project their dignity as human beings - in spite of all the efforts of those around them to degrade them - I'm saying that this music is the manifestation of the dignity in the life that has always been present.

Ladies, you do not have to submit yourself to any man abusing you.

You know, women are treated like objects. But they have substance. They are not just an item number to be looked at - they have more to them than that.

I want to have a resume that is substantial enough to hold itself as respectful.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

America wants its respect.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

What I've learned is you treat women right.

when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

What I have learned in this life is that you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

You are worthy because God gave you breath in your body. You have a right to walk this planet just like everyone else.

Il n'est pas sûr, enfin, qu'en voulant donner une sanction sociale à la dignité, Améry ne l'ait pas confondue avec ce qu'on appellerait plutôt l'honneur : celui-ci consiste bien en une forme de reconnaissance accordée par la société en fonction de ses codes ; celle-là, en revanche, l'individu isolé peut aussi l'éprouver.

il ne suffit pas de prendre en soi-même une décision pour acquérir la dignité ; il faut que cette décision soit suivie d'un acte qui en découle, et qui soit perceptible par les autres (même s'ils ne sont pas là pour le percevoir). Telle serait donc notre première définition de la dignité.

Hay formas de comportarse con dignidad moral incluso en circunstancias extremas

On voit que choisir la mort a ici une tout autre signification que dans les vertus héroïques. Là-bas, la mort finit par devenir une valeur et un but, car elle incarne l'absolu mieux que la vie. Ici, elle est moyen et non fin ; elle est l'ultime recours de l'individu désirant affirmer sa dignité.

Por un lado, piensa en los indios (aunque no utilice estos términos) como seres humanos completos

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

We do not want to be seen as machines. Hence we tend to reject statements like the one by Karl Vogt, a 19th century German philosopher, who stated that "the brain produces thoughts as the liver produces bile, or the kidneys produce urine".