Quotes About Dignity

La norma ética nos prohíbe ver a los hombres como medios y al Hombre como fin.

Let us not expect the rebirth of civilization as long as man has not again learnt to feel humiliated when he devotes himself to economic tasks.

Humanity longs to free itself from poverty, from toil, from war—from everything which few escape without degrading themselves.

Vulgarity consists as much in disrespecting what deserves respect as in respecting what does not deserve it.

Vulgarity consists, basically, in being on first name terms with Plato or Goethe.

Let us be careful not to call accepting what degrades us without any resistance "accepting life".

De muchas cosas me pueden culpar mis enemigos. Pero de dos, jamás: de ser ladrón o maricón"[40

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.

Brak je samo za temperamentne stare djevice, iscije?ene prostituke i kraljevske parove.

Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

En sus ojos se leía a menudo el ardiente deseo de tomar parte en alguna conversación interesante o de juntarse a otro grupo, pero se retenía al pensar que aquello podía parecer excesivo por su parte o demasiado familiar, y que con ello rebajaría su dignidad. Y por eso permanecía eternamente solo, en la misma actitud silenciosa, emitiendo de cuando en cuando un sonido monótono, con lo cual llegó a pasar por un hombre de lo más aburrido.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

Act only on the maxim which you can will as a law for all rational beings," and "Act so as to treat rational beings always as ends in themselves and never as means only." Kant

A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

A child had a right to be a child. Even in Mississippi a girl was a girl till her time came. White folks or no white folks. Nobody sent a little ol' thing out to take up for the whole damn race.

The pedicure Regina executed herself. She wanted Betsey to feel relaxed and cared about. The way all little Negro girls should feel. Not cramped or out of place, or funny-looking or easy. Just lovely and well-loved.

Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/ a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/ i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/ in somebody else's cup...

You have been going on about pride like it was a bad thing, and I disagree with you. A man's pride is about the only thing he has that's worth having, and is what sets him apart from the pack. We have argued this before, Judge, and I guess I will say this time that a man that doesn't have it is a pretty poor specimen and apt to take to whisky for the lack. For all whisky is, is pride you can pour in your belly.

çevrendeki her ?eyi kesin çizgilerle ikiye ay?rd?n. (Bu bak?mdan da sana benzedi?imi itiraf etmeliyim.) Dünyada yaln?z güzellerle çirkinler vard?, bir insan ya ak?ll?yd? ya da aptal, senin gibi ba??n? dik tutmas?n? bilemeyen bütün insanlar dalkavuktu; sana benzemeyen kibar davran??l? insanlar? da züppelikle suçlard?n.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.