Quotes About Dignity

Many a time have I wondered at the unworthy ways of Fate, at the pettiness of the pleasure it takes in frustrating plans that are small and innocent, at its entire want of dignity, at its singular spitefulness, at the resemblance of its manners to those of an evilly-disposed kitchen-maid....

It's very awkward when you aren't so old inside as you are outside. For years I've been trying to be dignified, and I'm always being tripped up by a kind of apparently incurable natural effervescence.

Nobody who works full time deserves to live in poverty.

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

A responsible man remained unflappable in the face of personal loss. He would wave away an affront...

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.

Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.

Silence will create respect and dignity; justice and fairplay will bring more friends; benevolence and charity will enhance prestige and position; courtesy will draw benevolence; service of mankind will secure leadership and good words will overcome powerful enemies.

Mutilate not even a rabid dog.

When the state is not kind, then the people are fodder.

To be included in someone's absence, it is an honour, and it asks quiet. It asks respect.

conveying the message that sexual touching requires consent, you're obviously conveying values and judgments. And

All of these people were simply asking to be given basic rights that were automatically accorded to all other humans:

We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too, But very human beings, human just as much as you. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

Nothing shines brighter than Black polished right.

fBy living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

We should not make disabled lives subject to debate

There must have been a problem, we offer. God must have something even better around the corner, we propose. Must He? Here, then is my Lenten plea for the day: let the mourning mourn. Grant those who grieve the dignity to ask questions. Bestow upon the bewildered permission to not edit their honesty. Crucifixion is, after all, serious work.

You don't want modesty," Maya Angelou once said. "You want humility. Humility

don't believe in the word slave because no one chooses to be owned by someone; an enslaved person is a human being whose freedom has been stolen.

La dignidad del trabajo es una palabrería empresarial para mantener a costa de los principios de dignidad humana condiciones no superadas de esclavitud. La dignidad del trabajo es un mito cuando se trabaja por necesidad.