Quotes About Dignity

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Death deserves dignity.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Speak me fair in death.

Jesus honored the dignity of people, whether he agreed with them or not. He would not found his kingdom on the basis of race or class or other such divisions.

a sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well.

Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about — like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.

Homeless people bear God's image too.

Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than educational. Somehow the "victim" of addictive behavior must regain an underlying sense of human dignity and choice, a profound reawakening that usually requires much time, attention, and love.

the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone.

We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us.

There was no question now who sat at the right hand of the King. It was the Queen, who walked through the great hall wearing deepest crimson and gold with her head high and a little smile on her lips. She did not flaunt her return to favour. She took it as she had taken her eclipse: as the nature of royal marriage. Now that her star was risen again she walked as proudly as she had ever done when in shadow.

It was Anne who was before the table like a prisoner before the bar. She did not stand with her head bowed as I always did. Anne stood with her head high, one dark eyebrow slightly raised, and she met my Uncle's glare as if she were his equal.

I would rather see you dead at my feet than dishonored.