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“If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to inci...”
“Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not." -Beatrix Whittaker”
“Losing your honor in a person's eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity.”
“By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.”
“On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.”
“There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't b...”
“Dignity and pride are not only two different feelings, but, in some ways, opposites.You can step on your pride to preserve your dignity. You can destroy your dignity because of your pride.”
“So she prayed, Lord, give me patience. She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it....it cost her tears to think that her situation might actually be that desolate, so sh...”
“When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.”
“There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.”
“We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)”
“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”
“Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.”
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
“You're a dangerous fool who should be sent west," he told the unconscious man. "You have forgotten the face of your father.”
“A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.”
“Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, a...”
“We must bring back dignity to hard work.”
“And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.”
“Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.”
