quotations about dignity
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
LAURA HILLENBRAND
Unbroken
There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.
CHINESE PROVERB
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
RICK BRAGG
All Over But the Shoutin'
No sir, letting something live without its dignity ain't doing it a favor. You kill an animal outright, and maybe it's wrong, but at least it leaves this world the same as it came into it. You change a wild animal ... make it live to suit us instead of itself, and unless you can make a real compelling argument for its complete domestication, then what you've done is way worse than wrong.
JAKE MOSHER
The Last Buffalo Hunter
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
DAVE EGGERS
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
BLAISE PASCAL
Pensées
Remember this, -- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Human dignity is like other values identifiable by its bearer (the human being), and like other dignities of concrete types (senatorial dignity, priestly dignity, maternal dignity) determined or specified in the ideal realm by the kind of its bearers.
METTE LEBECH
On the Problem of Human Dignity
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
LUIGI PIRANDELLO
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
The government cannot bestow dignity, and it cannot take it away.
CLARENCE THOMAS
Obergefell v. Hodges, June 26, 2015
True dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect, and still revere himself,
In lowliness of heart.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
lines left upon a seat in a Yew Tree
Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.
JOSEPH BARTLETT
Aphorisms on Men