Dignity Quotes - Page 26

• And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

  Warren Zevon

  Ocean, Future, California

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• There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

  Sean O'Casey

  Thinking, Atheism, Reason

  1926 The Plough and the Stars, act1.

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• While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

  Confucius

  Men, Law, Land

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

  Martial

  Glory, Donkey

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• For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

  St. Jerome

  Empty, Stomach, Preservation

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• Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Cowboy, Would Be, May

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• Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

  Karl Kraus

  Father, Sin, Wells

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• This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Powerful, Vote

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• They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

  Daryl Gates

  Growing Up, Childhood, Body

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• I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, Party, Communist

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• The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Hunting, Simple, Agriculture

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• The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

  A. Whitney Brown

  Thinking, Long, Water

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

  Dana Carvey

  Years, Age, Levels

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• Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

  Michael Jackson

  Looks, Knees, Please

  Song: 2 Bad, Album: Michael

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• I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

  Homer

  Lying, Winning, Dust

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• Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

  Bill Watterson

  Girl, Sex, Fun

  "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, September 1988.

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• There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. If you make a chair, you want to make a nice chair. You want people to admire it. I think doing something well is a form of respect for humanity in general. I have found that all incompetence comes from not paying attention, which comes from people doing something that they don't want to do. And doing what you don't want to do means either you have no choice, or you don't think that the moments of your life are worth fighting for.

  Hal Hartley

  Nice, Mean, Fighting

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• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  Sallust

  Freedom, Liberty, Higher

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• To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Evil, Upset

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.202, New Directions Publishing

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• The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

  Albert Einstein

  Sacrifice, Law, Important

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.257, Princeton University Press

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• Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

  Frank Herbert

  Quality, Breathe, Reason

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• Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

  Winfield Scott Hancock

  Troops, Cannons, Aim

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• Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

  Alexander Pope

  Favors, Fame

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• He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.

  Muhammad

  Order, Doe, Littles

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