Dignity Quotes - Page 30

• Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

  Richard Sennett

  Men, Saws, Poet

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• Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Dream, Stars, Ambition

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “Imogen: And Other Poems”, p.65

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• But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their value from the matter they are made of, and the excellent skill of their maker: Pots of common clay must not contend with China-dishes, nor pewter utensils vye dignity with those of silver.... Woman was not composed of any inanimate or vile dirt, but of a more refined and purified substance, enlivened and actuated by a Rational Soul, whose operations speak it a beam, or bright ray of Divinity.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Women, Order, Skills

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• I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.

  Jo Walton

  Thinking, Dragons, Needs

  Jo Walton (2013). “Tooth and Claw”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.

  Fred Rodell

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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• What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

  Giannina Braschi

  Liberty

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• In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.

  Merold Westphal

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Passion

  Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press

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• I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

  Helio Gracie

  Sports, Blood, Names

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• One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Courage, Humans, Know How

  "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 5), 1938.

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• Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Expression, Perfect, Joy

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• I give dignity second place to expedience.

  Jack Vance

  Giving, Expedience, Second Place

  Jack Vance (1998). “The complete dying earth”

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• By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind.

  Leo Strauss

  Home, Men, Mind

  "Liberalism Ancient and Modern". Book by Leo Strauss, 1968.

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• In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Poverty, Gods Will, Humans

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

  Robert Kuttner

  Home, Nursing, Class

  "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.

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• Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights and the dignity of man are distinctly Western, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. And while dialogue is dignified; dhimmitude is not, even if it achieves a desired, if temporary, effect.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Rights, Ideas

  "B. Hussein in History Wonderland" by Ilana Mercer, www.ilanamercer.com. August 21, 2009.

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• Human dignity should be without borders.

  Geena Rocero

  Borders, Should, Humans

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• Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Eye, Character, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought”, p.132, e-artnow

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• It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

  Craig Ferguson

  Veterans Day, Honor, Campaigns

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• Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.

  Trent Lott

  War, Self, Government

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• It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.

  George Steinbrenner

  Years, Class, Yankees

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• Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.

  Alain de Botton

  Happiness, Success, Fall

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• In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

  Henry Flynt

  Artist, Thinking, Class

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• Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the highest life of society through the dignity of man and through the multiplicity of his action, in which multiplicity is life. Through well-divided property alone can the units of society react upon the State. Through it alone can a public opinion flourish. Only where the bulk of the cells are healthy can the whole organism thrive.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Eye, Men, Cells

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.26, IHS Press

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• There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Choices, Politics

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