Quotes About Dignity

True nobility is exempt from fear.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Leisure with dignity.

No Sane man will dance.

May the Architect be high-minded; not arrogant, but faithful; Just, and easy to deal with, without avarice; Not let his mind be occupied in receiving gifts, But let him preserve his good name with dignity...

Noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble.

A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed or sex, had certain inalienable rights which other human beings had no right to violate.

I would take care you speak of her with respect for, of course, I will interpret any disrespect for her as disrespect for me.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

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

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

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

Am I a man, or a contract? What sort of society decides that special papers are needed even by beggars?

She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.

I call it Negroland because I still find "Negro" a word of wonders, glorious and terrible. A word for runaway slave posters and civil rights proclamations; for social constructs and street corner flaunts. A tonal-language word whose meaning shifts as setting and context shift, as history twists, lurches, advances, and stagnates. As capital letters appear to enhance its dignity; as other nomenclatures

When he's not lynching you, he's humiliating you, said the men at the dinner table. They

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself

You talked once of bodily dignity.' 'I've seen heads shot off.

but I would not lie ready to his hand. A tool can be used, a man must be asked.