Quotes About Dignity

When did we stop being people, being human?

She treated me like a real person. She didn't see me as just a colour

Move back," President Clinton said. "Let this mother through. Don't you know who this is?

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It was nicer that way. knowing that something called rights existed. The right to health care, to good and to schooling for our children . . . For us things were good; for others they were bad. Especially for the landowners, who are the ones who suffered most when we demanded our rights. They spend more and earn less. Besides, once we learned about the existence of rights we also learned not to bow our heads when the bosses scolds us. We learned to look them in the face.

O BICHO VI ONTEM um bicho Na imundície do pátio Catando comida entre os detritos. Quando achava alguma coisa, Não examinava nem cheirava: Engolia com voracidade. O bicho não era um cão, Não era um gato, Não era um rato. O bicho, meu Deus, era um homem.

Jo ja havia comprès que sempre cal actuar a despit dels qui no s'ho mereixen, que cal sacrificar-se pels altres, àduch pels qui us trairan; que allò que compta és la propia noblesa, no la traïció dels altres.

The manipulative behavior prompted by these expectations can also be seen in the general nonclinical population. These childish expectations and their consequent behavior deny us much of our dignity and self-respect as human beings. If we have the same expectations about ourselves as our manipulators do, we surrender to them our dignity and self-respect, the responsibility for governing our own existence, and the control over our own behavior.

Ser hombre es mucho más todavía, es no rebajar a nadie, con una orden, con una propina. Es más, es… no permitir que nadie al lado tuyo se sienta menos, que nadie al lado tuyo se sienta mal.

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isin't about being naked.

Regnet piskade honom i nacken, rann in under rocken och blöte ner hans skjorta som klistrade sig mot ryggen. Till och med uniformen hade förlorat sin värdighet.

Tienes la vida ante ti; tú eres su único dueño. Se digno de todo lo que yo he amado.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

Edward had lived 'a celibate life'; indeed, 'he preserved with holy chastity the dignity of his consecration, and lived his whole life dedicated in true innocence'.

But they were at least allowed to retain the fig leaf of royal status.

Photography acquires a certain dignity, which it does not normally have, when it is not just a reproduction of reality but can show us things that no longer exist.

That who advances his glory, not their own,   Them he himself to glory will advance.

The call to the creative life is a call to dignity, to a life of vulnerability and adventure and the call to a life that exquisite excitement and indeed ecstasy will often visit.

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.

And there is no small consolation in a due apprehension of that spiritual dignity which ensues hereon; for when they meet with the greatest troubles and the most contemptuous scorns in this world, a due apprehension of their acceptance with God, as being made kings and priests unto him, yields them a refreshment which the world knows nothing of, and which themselves are not able to express.

the Canadian government – the power of each of us as citizens – has been and still is breaking the law. Breaking it by misusing it – by resorting to avoidance, by pretending to be doing what it isn't, by legalistic and administrative manipulation, by malingering. These are standard tricks far beneath the dignity of the Crown. For

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

He decided he'd rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who'd tear out someone's liver to get into an escape pod.

If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees.