Quotes About Dignity

But Isabelle Lacoste had been in the Sûreté long enough to know how much easier it was to shoot than to talk. How much easier it was to shout than to be reasonable. How much easier it was to humiliate and demean and misuse authority than to be dignified and courteous, even to those who were themselves none of those things. How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Armand Gamache had no stomach to breach someone else's boundaries just because he could.

A peace above all earthly dignities," she quoted. Then turned back to the room. "A still and quiet conscience.

I am not an ice cream come! I am a human being!

I said with great dignosity, "Father, I am afraid I can't discuss my private life with you as I have a date with Lord of the Flies.

I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.

To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

If one treats men like cattle, one cannot squeeze out of them more than cattle-like performances.

having someone with you when you die should not be a privilege but a right.

I don't want their help," he explodes. "I don't want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case.

on top of a print of a turbaned man with a face as old as honesty.

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.

Whether we commit seppuku by our own hands or are crucified by the executioner, our ultimate end is to die. This is a band of death, but death with honor!

True friends always place a higher value on the life, success and dignity of humanity.

One of the great advances of our generation has been the exposure of child abuse. We have come to see that our prevailing rules for raising children shame and violate their uniqueness and their dignity. Such rules have been a part of our emotional endarkenment. Alice Miller has shown with painful clarity how our current parenting rules have aimed at making the child fit the projected image of the parent. They have also enforced the idealization of parents by the wounded child.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. If

If you pair excellence with humility, people not only won't run over you, they will respect you.