I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon...

Though the captives’ resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dignity!

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

His illness, which he faced with courage, made us all aware of human pain, of every physical and spiritual pain; he gave suffering dignity and value, showing that man isn’t just worthy because of his...

In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; its business today will be to defend passionately human dignity and reserve.

On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of lost dignity makes him also aware that he is indeed...

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

It’s tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there’s gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It’s up to you whether you let...

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it’s said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we...

There ain’t anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human...

I’m not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their...

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less...

Our goal and role is to preserve their dignity and give them some time to be able to reassess, to get them some services that they require. Then, they can move along with their lives...

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...

Social Security is not just the foundation of America’s retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state’s economy.

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that’s what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through...

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.

to him who contemplates it reverently.” … What’s the most beautiful part of the world, the part that has the greatest dignity? It’s not really a part but a person – it’s every person. Personal...

Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.

It’s not the destination (of seeking the truth) that creates our dignity or integrity, it’s the journey. From Messages From a Grandfather, by Robert Gately

As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY, I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY. She attempts the posture...

You can render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, but if you don’t keep from Caesar that which is yours, Caesar will take some, and than take some more, and if you don’t put a...

True beauty is not in your face or in your dress but in your dignity.

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a...

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people’s lives. It was a life of dignity and...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to...

[William Shatner gave a quicky Q&A to the Daily News . Does he have any dignity left?] I pissed it away long ago, … getting closer and closer to my own being.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy.

The only love you have to prove in life is your love of God and helping others. Anyone that can’t see that has proven themselves to be unworthy of your time because why would you...

Silence is victory and patience is glory.Let silence speak our identityand let patience keep our dignity.

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: “You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls”; if the answer is, “But I...

We are quiet, contemplative people, and our behaviour in the field is relatively aristocratic. Running is not necessarily beneath our dignity but it is in any case pointless because the flies move much too fast....

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes.And while such vulnerability...

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.’ – Tom Joad (Jr.)

Leisure with dignity.

Dignity is a bridge.It needs two sides that, being different, distinct and distant become one in the bridgewithout ceasing to be different and distinct, but ceasing already to be distant.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her...

Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

What matters is your convictions.

We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for...

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

To assert dignity is to lose it.

A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.