Quotes About Dignity

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

It's so easy to see people as less than they are, as less than people.

You aimin' to go the full circle now? How long before I have to come get you up from the sidewalks? You got hurt and pain in you? Well, I used to know a man who knew how to live with his pain and make his hurt work for him. Your daddy died with dignity; there wasn't no bum in him. And he known some hurts in this life you ain't never even heard of!

You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished.

The way a man handles himself in his anger may define his nobility.

I once wanted to save the world. Now I just want to leave the room with some dignity.

reducing human love, joy, religion, and art to a product of unconscious urges, or economic forces, or the struggle for survival and reproduction, the theories of Freud, Marx, and Darwin have emptied humanity of its freedom, its dignity, and its purpose.

In that moment I think I learned the real tragedy of living too long. It is not losing one's health or one's memory or even one's mind; it is losing one's dignity.

Why should I reward his dirty tricks with my lily-white hand?

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

I wasn't reaching for glory at Naoetsu. I just wouldn't give the Bird the satisfaction of destroying my dignity. Don't let anyone take yours away, either.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Notre place dans le l'humanité [en tant que femme] ne doit pas être mendiée, mais prise

I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

But never, ever mistake kindness for weakness.

I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness for weakness.

Mais non. What?' 'Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical,' he said, slightly embarrassed about using a swear word in front of such a dignified woman,

But he'd come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they'd done. Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.

Alcohol stole dignity and friends and family and livelihoods before finally taking the life. Alcohol was a thief. And often a murderer.