Quotes About Dignity

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

I am not a tool , so don't treat me as if I am one

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

A man who treats his woman like a princess is proof that he has been raised by a queen.

You want respect? Treat others with respect.

Time was politicians would lose their lives. Today they give up their honor, dignity and self-worth, willingly.

Hell, we got too much dignity in government now, what we need is some meanness.

There is no Death with Dignity when people choose to die because health care economics and the social services system prevent life with dignity.

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

Anger is about status injury.

Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between being treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized.

The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves.

I hate being carted around like equipment, even though technically I am actually equipment.

When we encounter another individual truly as a person, not as an object for use, we become fully human

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness." .

He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically

Nor are we only kings and the freest of all men, but also priests for ever, a dignity far higher than kingship, because by that priesthood we are worthy to appear before God, to pray for others, and to teach one another mutually the things which are of God. For these are the duties of priests, and they cannot possibly be permitted to any unbeliever.

[W]hen you first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are), and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro... when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" - then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.

The tortuous road which has led from Montgomery to Oslo is a road over which millions of Negroes are traveling to find a new sense of dignity. It will, I am convinced, be widened into a superhighway of justice.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Viel Leisten - wenig hervortreten - mehr sein als scheinen." Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Generalfeldmarschall, (* 28. Februar 1833 in Berlin; † 4. Januar 1913 ebenda)

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