Quotes About Dignity

Kevin, you don't have to beat people to treat them brutally.

You do everything they tell you," she wept, "and they still treat you like a old dog. Go here, open your legs; go there, bust your back. What they care! I ain't s'pose to have no feelin's!

Poor doesn't matter as much if you can make a place for yourself and be respected.

Kevin, you don't have to beat people to treat them brutally." "Wait a minute," he said. "I'm not minimizing the wrong that's being done here. I just …" "Yes you are. You don't mean to be, but you are.

Kevin, você não precisa bater nas pessoas para tratá-las com brutalidade.

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

Even thus imprisoned in an instant, the spirit of man might yet plumb the whole extent of space, and also the whole past and the whole future; and so from behind his prison bars, he might render the universe that intelligent worship which, they felt, it demanded of him. Better so, they said, than that he should fret himself with puny efforts to escape. He is dignified by his very weakness, and the cosmos by its very indifference.

Sin embargo, conocí a muchos internados que supieron ser fieles a su dignidad humana hasta el mismo fin. Los nazis lograron degradarlos físicamente, pero no fueron capaces de rebajarlos moralmente. Gracias a estos pocos, no he perdido totalmente mi fe en la humanidad. Si en la misma jungla de Birkenau no todos fueron necesariamente inhumanos con sus hermanos hombres, indudablemente hay todavía esperanzas. Esta esperanza es la que me hace vivir.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

Woman has the same spiritual dignity as man. Both of them have the same God, the same Teacher, the same Church. They breathe, see, hear, know, hope and love in the same way. Beings who have the same life, grace and salvation are called … to the same manner of being. Clement of Alexandria Tutor,

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Zazen-gi cautions us to come out of samadhi calmly and to move the body naturally. It further teaches us how to get to our feet with dignity and what to do after doing so. It writes, "Even after getting out of samadhi, you should always be on the alert to act responsively and protect your power of concentration as you protect a baby. Then, it will be easy for you to cultivate your power of concentration until it comes to maturity.

Che senso ha rispettare chi non rispetta noi? Che senso ha difendere la loro cultura o presunta cultura quando essi disprezzano la nostra?

E' solo rispettando se stessi che si può esigere il rispetto degli altri, è solo credendo in se stessi che si può essere creduti dagli altri

Tylko wtedy,kiedy b?dziemy szanowa? samych siebie, mo?emy wymaga? szacunku od innych, tylko wtedy, kiedy uwierzymy w siebie samych, inni uwierz? w nas.

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

If I were to experience failure upon failure day after day — nothing but total embarrassment — then perhaps I'd develop some semblance of dignity as a result. But no, I would somehow illogically twist even such failures, gloss over them smoothly, so that it would seem like they had a perfectly good theory behind them. And I would have no qualms about putting on a desperate show to do so.

Each individual has his own way of living. Can we not learn to respect one another's chosen way? One makes every effort to live in a dignified and proper manner, without harming anyone else, yet people will carp and cavil and try to tear one down.

Just as a man has the right to live, he ought also to have the right to die.

As the saying goes, pull in your belly and your rump sticks out—and it works the same way with self-respect too.

Mientras que las personas tienen el derecho de vivir con libertad, tienen también el derecho de morir en el momento que lo deseen; pero, cuando la madre está viva, hay que renunciar a este derecho porque, al ejercerlo, al mismo tiempo que quitarse la propia vida se llevarían la de la madre.

Güçlü kuvvetli olmak istiyordum, kaba saba de?il.

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.