Quotes About Dignity

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Helpless creatures ought, on the contrary, to be treated as sacred trusts, whether they are orphans, or dependants, or creatures of any kind unable to assert themselves.

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.

Privacy is precious. Respect it. Own it.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.

I feel just like the boy who stubbed his toe–too damned badly hurt to laugh and too damned proud to cry!

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God, can not long retain it.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

I loved those Latin words for their dignity, their foreignness, and the way my tongue had to wrap around them. I felt that in learning the special language of a scholarly order, I was amassing a kind of force. This was the pure and noble side of the world, uncorrupted by secrets and trickery. How extraordinary that a word could serve as a shorthand for an elaborate tale of disease.

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks, or how big the Emperor's palace happens to be.

Thou shall not operate on the day of a patient's death.

It should be a basic human right.

When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right." Harris

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

Ashamed is just grateful waiting to happen. You only taste your dignity right before you puke it up.

To pay a price in advance, to the unjust, a price to prevent advances against your physical integrity -- that is to compromise your dignity. And dignity compromised is no longer dignity.