You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like l...
No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and misuse.
There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that unintentional stroke of genius, in which one's wor...
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
I wouldn't dignify it with the name immoral.
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.
As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There is work that is isolating, harsh, destructive, specialized or trivialized into meaninglessness. And there i...
That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.
Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity.
When did you last have fun being dignified?
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.
The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
You can't look dignified when you're having fun.
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
