Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it’s going

walk with kings and keep it’s virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.” Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.If you have class,...

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand — they only. Know this at last.

Suffering of the people strengthens their will and determination to struggle as to live in dignity and freedom.

Then he was sorry for the great fish… How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the...

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it’s due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don’t have to do it often.

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine … And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of...

Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that...

In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it...

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

I want to write a poem about “Truth,” “Honor,” “Dignity,” and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it.

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. … Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

Restoring and recognizing the dignity of the human person is at the heart of our efforts, … In the weeks and months to come, this effort will assist families in rebuilding their lives with supportive...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the...

It is time to call down the curtain on the sorry soap opera in the White House and restore dignity to the national stage,

[…] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren’t the center of the universe. That others weren’t created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity...

I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!

The important thing isn’t what other people think you are; it’s who you are.

If we don’t have a policy that allows an immigrant to come across with their dignity and their respect as well as their work ethic, we’re going to pay an awful price. We already are.

[F]rom my years of understanding … I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I...

I’m still the same Chelsea Knot. Bow down, bitches.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

Men were created before women. … But that doesn’t prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of...

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn’t it?

The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or...

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic, mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury...

The Natural Law of Cause and Effect. (KARMA) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Our world will be a much better place to live, if such natural law of cause and...

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.

Unassuming in manner, genial and kindly in his intercourse with his fellow-men, never showing impatience or irritation, devoid of personal ambition of the baser sort or of the slightest desire to exalt himself… In the...

What’s that?””The laundry basket?””No, next to it.””I don’t see anything next to it.””It’s my last shred of dignity. It’s very small.

Frank, I ran into Gladys and Billy at the store yesterday. Do you know what he said to me?”The girls went very quiet. Frank didn’t look up.”Hello?” he asked, and kept rubbing Henry’s knife.Dotty hit...

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.”[ Live 8 Concert, Mary...

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no ‘beyond’ to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave....

Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’ But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and...

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation...

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity!

The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one’s territory, to find one’s pack, to be in one’s body with certainty and pride regardless of the body’s gifts and limitations,...

I can walk without shoes and live without cloths, but I cannot live without dignity even for a second.

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

The victims of Katrina need our help, and they deserve to be treated with dignity, not treated like guinea pigs in a massive experiment for a dubious education proposal.