Quotes of: Dignity Keyword

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Victor Hugo

Dignity is a bridge. It needs two sides that, being different, distinct and distant become one in the bridge without ceasing to be different and distinct, but ceasing already to be distant.

Zapatistas

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Michelle Obama

Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and ...

John C. McGinley

He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so. No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some...

The Double

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Culpa Innata

If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood

There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.

The Enchantress

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,  your heart must forget about shame  and dignity. You are God's lover,  yet you worry what people are saying.

The Essential Rumi

What humanity wants most is crude sensation. Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

Full Dark House

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Beyond Freedom and Dignity

I believe in any religion that puts treating people with respect and dignity above ritual and dogma.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

The Iron King

Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.

Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

The Need and the Blessing of Prayer

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.

You Are Not a Gadget

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

P. J. O'Rourke

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Sharon Stone