Quotes About Dignity

This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector

But I would have the memory be worthy of the man.

Violence has been a universal part of the human story. The demand to love one's enemies has not. Division has been a norm. Inherent human dignity has not. Armies, greed, and the politics of power have been constants in history. Hospitals, schools, and charity, for all have not. Bullies are common. Saints are not.

Your feminine heart has been created with the greatest of all possible dignities—as a reflection of God's own heart.

Yes—God is sovereign. And in his sovereignty he created a world in which the choices of men and angels matter. Tremendously. He has granted to us "the dignity of causation," as Pascal called it. Our choices have enormous consequences.

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion... for liberalism is not so much a party creed as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves.

Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.

I'm at a point in my life where I will not be yelled at.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.' That's the perfect description of Tessa's family.

Humo de hidalguía, la cabeza vana y la bolsa vacía».

shows her in her borrowed clothes, determined to keep her dignity

Instead, she insisted on being called Queen Mother for the rest of her life.

Tall and svelte, he oozed sophistication and was "very pleasant in the sight of gentlewomen.

This was not the way to speak to a queen. Mary, visibly coloring, ordered him to be silent.

until the queen, in tears, slipped off her stool, at which point she knelt and continued as before.

But she was still a crowned queen in her own right.

They died honorably rather than like rats in a trap.

Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.

We live in a world of rights that has no sense of purpose; we live in a world of tolerance that has no sense of dignity for those tolerated or conscience concerning what is to be tolerated; we live in a world of leisure and squander it on empty pursuit; we live in a world of comfort and convenience where we can accumulate anything we want except that which matters most.

Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all describe relations developed in struggles against capitalism and which can be seen as anticipating or creating a society beyond capitalism.

Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the traditional laborer from rising in status or, to put it bluntly, from "winning," even though what he wins has been rightfully his from the moment he was born into the human race. I

We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him; how to hold our own and raise ourselves in his esteem without for one moment letting him think he had any God-given rights that we did not also have.

They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can't deserve our rights." Others