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!

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...

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...

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.

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However,...

Become a dignitary by treating others with dignity.

LADIES!!!! You are not a SEXUAL OBJECT! – not a PUNCHING BAG _ not a target for EMOTIONAL ABUSE! You worth more than that! You were created by God to be a Partner to MEN...

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in...

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.

El lacayo pide; el digno merece. Aquél solicita del favor lo que este espera del mérito. Ser digno significa no pedir lo que se merece, ni aceptar lo inmerecido. Mientras los serviles trepan entre las...

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is...

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...

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly...

I know, Ma. I’m a-tryin’. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn’t have a fat ass? An’ they waggle their ass an’ flop their gun aroun’. Ma”, he said, “if it...

We want dignity and greatness for all human beings,

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (…); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is...

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think...

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.