Quotes About Dignity

Homer uses the word menis for Achilles only in connection with the wrong done to him by Agamemnon, and never in connection with his berserk rage at Hektor for killing his friend Patroklos. I prefer indignant rage as a translation of menis , because I can hear the word dignity hidden in the world indignant . It is the kind of rage arising from social betrayal that impairs a person's dignity through violation of what's right.

I count eight separate deaths to which soldiers in the Iliad responded with tears, Several of these are quoted in the course of this chapter and need not to be repeated. The general answer to the question of who is wept is: everyone . American military culture in Vietnam regarded tears as dangerous but above all as demeaning, the sigh of a weakling, a loser. To weep was to lose one's dignity among American soldiers in Vietnam.

how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but

We would communicate a far more compassionate message to those who are terminally ill and dying—and to be honest, even to those for whom dying is a long way off—if we focused our energies on helping people die right. To die right. That's what it's all about. Unfortunately, euthanasia has become a popular topic because people are led to believe that death by suicide or homicide is more dignified than dying naturally.

Hay una dignidad en la derrota que a duras penas le corresponde a la victoria.

La derrota tiene una dignidad que la ruidosa victoria no merece

To be just meaans to recognize the other as other; it means to give acknowledgment even where one cannot love... A just man is just, therefore, because he sanctions another person in his very separateness and helps him to receive his due.

Properly speaking, the liberal arts receive an honorarium, while servile work receives a wage.

Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visable in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker.

And wagged our shaven heads, in that place where men spit on floors -- where sometimes we are given fish to eat, but never knife or fork to eat it with.

Never forget, grandchildren, that we must always see all other people as human beings, worthy of respect.

The story that we have in the West, so far as it is based on the Bible, is based on a view of the universe that belongs to the first millennium B.C. It does not accord with our concept either of the universe or of the dignity of man. It belongs entirely somewhere else.

History is always personal—never more so than for those who find theirs is written by the enemy. It strips the defeated and the displaced of their dignity. It is a posthumous insult.

Ronald Reagan was a man who knew the diplomatic form. He also had a showman's ear for a tune. So when, at an official dinner, the marine band slipped into 'Edelweiss', he stopped mid-anecdote, rose to his feet, placed a reverential hand over his heart and stared into the blank mid-distance out of respect for the Austrian national anthem.

He [Homer Lane] says much that the student in training college does not learn: the lesson that one must go deep, seek motives, approve, live with children without insisting on dignity or respect — which both generally imply fear.

Spare me from ending up in a dayroom with worn-out, incontinent old folk. Spare

Men, again, who live up to the moral law, wont enslave their brethren.

You can't look dignified when you're having fun.

Well, she certainly had a point there. It wasn't easy remembering you were an august personage.

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. - Lt.j.g Daniel A Kaffee

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?