Quotes About Dignity

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity.

learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate.

stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?

No race can prosper till it learns That there is as much dignity In tilling a field As in writing a poem. —Booker T. Washington

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

Yes, though I walk through all the confusion and changing opinions of men, I will fear no evil for I have found consciousness to be that which makes the confusion. Having in my own case restored it to its rightful place and dignity, I shall, in spite of the confusion, outpicture that which I am now conscious of being. And the very confusion will echo and reflect my own dignity.

You can't call us fags anymore, we're gay.

Some people always look respectable, I thought, and some people never do. Give Doll a bath, a haircut, a shave, a manicure, dress him in a thousand-pound suit, and he'd still look unwashed and somehow unsavoury. You couldn't clean off his past.

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.

grand that he had the right to keep his hat on in the presence chamber of the king.

Her only shame was that she felt none.

puesto que de ese modo puede conseguir su manumisión, mientras que mendigar envilece el espíritu. Por fin, tras indagar varias veces la dirección, logramos encontrar el camino que conducía a la puerta de Adad.

If rights are good enough for you, then they are good enough for everyone else.

Her back was straight, she moved with enormous, fragile dignity.

You are a seer overwhelmed by vision, not a silly maid who can't hold her drink. You will not hide. You will not hang your head. You will smile. You will eat. You will make a show of drinking your wine. One more sip of this. Good. Now gather your wits.

Hild looked down at the water, at herself, a woman. A woman who knows. Standing like a queen. Light of the world. Queen of the world.

An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and that love for humanity is the true religion.

An ethics that does not command us to renounce is a crime against the dignity to which we should aspire and against the happiness which we can obtain.

Ethical rules vary; honour does not change. A man is noble if he prefers to fail rather than to debase the tools of his triumph.

Even for Buddhist compassion, the individual is only a shadow that vanishes. The dignity of the individual is a Christian cast made out of Greek clay.

The ignoramus believes that the expression "aristocratic manners" signified insolent behavior; whoever investigates discovers that the expression signified courtesy, refinement, dignity.