Quotes About Dignity

If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them. —Plato

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

the Enlightenment dream of inevitable human progress, grounded in the claim that we are all born free and equal in dignity and rights, and premised on hope that the arc of history bends toward justice, is now in tatters.

Human beings are not "resources"to be owned by some one.That would be slavery.Human beings do possess resources.We called those "Humantalents".One human being cannot manage another human being.We can only manage their unique talents to make this world a better place for every one

I didn't say a word. I just stared at him. I figured I didn't owe him an answer, and I was too proud to even talk. I didn't want to tell him a damn thing about me.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

He needs to respect you and know you mean business, but it's not your business to be mean.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Once caught, the jig is up; whining is conduct unbecoming a crone.

Dignity is particularly important.

Old people needn't think they deserved respect just because they were old.

A people, Dr Alison had said, should be judged by the way they treated those weaker than themselves.

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

The weak and the poor are for us a source of unity. Jesus came into the world to change and transform society from a "pyramid" in which the strong and clever dominate at the top, into a "body", where each member of society has a place, is respected and is important.

Quando não há esperança, sempre fica o orgulho.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.

Lydia has a growing sense that her very humanity is under siege,

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

It's not right to shoot someone because they're not intelligent.

Extreme corruption steals our dignity from us as human beings and degrades us to the level of animals,