Quotes About Dignity

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

We must return to them their lawful rights, assure equality of justice - and then everybody leave everybody else to hell alone. Paternalistic - we show our prejudice in our paternalism - we downgrade their dignity.

Though not all, by any means, were so open about their purposes, all of them showed us how they felt about the Negro, the idea that we were people of such morality that nothing could offend us. These men, young and old, however, were less offensive than the ones who treated us like machines, as though we had no human existence whatsoever. When they paid me, they looked as though I were a stone or a post. They looked and saw nothing.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

A man named Hero washed the press cloths; Meany Hyde told Homer that the man had been a kind of hero, once. 'That's all I heard. He's been comin' here for years, but he was a hero. Just once,' Meany added, as if there might be more shame attached to the rarity of the man's heroism than there was glory to be sung for his moment in the sun.

The greatest crime a human being can commit is to allow himself to be humbled into poverty, into obscurity, into—" She let go of his arm, swept the room with a gesture at once damning and sad. "This. I committed that crime so that you will never

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

Education and water should be a human right.

Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.

A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.

Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

I'm not here to promote your pride.