Quotes About Dignity

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

Girls are also human beings, a point often overlooked.

You already know he's a pathetic excuse for a man and you deserve better.

Try asking sometime. Not all women will stand for that 50 Shades crap, you know.

You deserve more than to be something easy.

When climbing the ladder of life, don't let boys look up your dress!

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the obligation of the universe to provide shelter, sustenance, and amusement as required. I think Mister considered it beneath his dignity to plan for the future.

Senator. If you call my friend a liar one more time, I will take it badly. Excuse me? Arnos said, his eyebrows rising up. I suggest you find an alternate shortsighted, egomaniacally ridiculous reason to blatantly, recklessly ignore an obvious threat to the Realm simply because you don't wish it to exist. If you cannot restrain yourself from base slander, I will be pleased to meet you in juris macto and personally rip your forked tongue from your head.

Just keep the shirt clean," Susan muttered. "No problem. I can wipe my fingers on the cummerbund." "I can't take you anywhere," Susan said.

In my judgment, my buildings are considerably less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.

Shiro died. There was nothing pretty about it. There was no dignity to it. He'd been brutalized and savagely murdered - and he'd allowed it to happen to him in my place. But when he died, there was a small, contended smile on his face. Maybe the smile of someone who had run his course without wavering from it. Someone who had served something greater than himself. Who had given up his life willingly, if not gladly.

It is how decent, civilized people behave, Captain Ransom. Though I suppose that to someone of your level of moral fortitude, it must seem remarkable.

He was dignity distorted, bravery become knavery, sanctimoniousness masking sin. He was a mirror, jeering at the subject it reflected. Yet so muted were the jeers, so delicate the inaccuracies of delineation, that they evaded detection. True and false were blended together. The false was merely an extended shadow of the true.

The religious conviction that challenges us to see the image of God in every person is an absolute barrier to the practice of torture.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having,has a price.

To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable home movie that documents one's failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for each screening.

To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable documentary that details one's failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for every screening.

She did not want to court further appraisal by asking anyone for anything.

Nonetheless, character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent

Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place

Teachers deserve respect, I explain. Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?