Quotes About Dignity

One time when a group of dignitaries was visiting, Elsa implored Albert to dress up. He refused, stating that if they wanted to see him, he was there, but if they had come to see his clothes, they were in the closet.

People are human beings, not commercial transactions.

We gain self esteem by doing esteemable acts

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

in this life, living, there is no dignity except perhaps in laughter.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you might live as you wish. — Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

When you start treating people like people, they become people.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

The poem seemed to be about how naturally dignified animals are and how their lives make more sense than those of humans, which are cluttered with greed and self-pity and talk of a distant God.

They're trying to kill me. Death by indignity, the nastiest kind of all.

Young people could get away with rough clothing but unless the elderly dressed with care they looked like homeless vagabonds

The Captain's hand went to his forehead. A dreadful loss of status in the world. In his world. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit.

I wouldn't fool with these people too much," Deaver said. "They are not toys or dolls that one can arrange their thoughts or minds as you wish, simply give them a change of costume. They are grown men and they are lethal." Jiles, Paulette. The Color of Lightning: A Novel (p. 184). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.

This is how people wanted to appear to the world and to later generations. It is how they wished to be remembered no matter how hard life might have become. They framed themselves in their best clothes and with their most valuable possessions and smiled. Hard times and collapsing marriages and heavy labor was nobody's business but their own.

Hold your head high, and if you're going to go down, go down knowing you have not in any way compromised your soul.

Èšine-È›i mereu capul sus,iar dac? vei fi nevoit? s? È›i-l apleci, încearc? s? o faci f?r? s?-È›i compromiÈ›i sufletul!

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from beings so. Attempting to be more human, individually, leads to having more, egotistical, a form of dehumanization.

The oppressor shows solidarity with the oppressed only when he stops regarding the oppressed as an abstract category and sees them as persons who have been unjustly dealt with, deprived of their voice, cheated in the sale of their labour — when he stops making pious, sentimental, and individualistic gestures and risks an act of love.

For the oppressors, "human beings" refers only to themselves; other people are "things." For the oppressors, there exists only one right: their right to live in peace, over against the right, not always even recognized, but simply conceded, of the oppressed to survival. And they make this concession only because the existence of the oppressed is necessary to their own existence.

As the oppressors dehumanize others and violate their rights, they themselves also become dehumanized. As the oppressed, fighting to be human, take away the oppressors' power to dominate and suppress, they restore to the oppressors the humanity they had lost in the exercise of oppression.