Dignity Quotes - Page 33

• Dignity is an anachronism.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Anachronism

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.8, Read Books Ltd

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• Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Independence, Human Dignity, Humans

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• What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

  Jeremy Collier

  Honor, Reason, Enough

  Jeremy Collier (1725). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.223

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• There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

  Madame de Stael

  Sex, Ambition, Pride

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• success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Next Day, Smell, People

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• A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

  Immanuel Kant

  Lying, Men, Annihilation

  Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.267

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• Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

  Jane Addams

  Serenity, Age, Sometimes

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

  Phoebe Cary

  Courage, Giving Up, Fighting

  Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.175

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• nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Compassion, Careers, Empathy

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• celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

  Edna Ferber

  Letting Go, New Year, Years

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.53, Booklassic

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• ...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.

  Henry Fielding

  Wise, Hero, Food

  Henry Fielding (1844). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: With the Life of the Author : in Two Volumes”, p.443

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• One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wife, Widows

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Death, Thinking, Self

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• A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

  George Sand

  Children, Men, Competition

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Silence, Style, May

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• In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Rights, Government

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• Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

  Charles James Fox

  Men, Honor, Mind

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• A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

  Livy

  Gentleman

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• Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Sex, Love Is, Thieves

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• There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

  Edith Hamilton

  Agony, Soul

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Agreement, Humanity

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• Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Gambling, Modesty, Forget

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• There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

  Angelina Grimke

  Heart, Men, Moral

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.102, Penguin

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• perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Home, Men, Sheep

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• I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and women and to honor God's creation. We want our girls to know right from wrong, to always tell the truth, to treat people no matter who they are with dignity and respect, no matter how different they may seem...because we want our girls to know we are all God's children and there's so much more that unites than divides us.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Christian, Children

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