Best dignity & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“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.”

Ifs Men Saws He Man Poet Dignity Collectives Norm Convincing Brutes Repression Sameness Deviants

Author:Richard Sennett

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Men Humans Stills Ideas Individual Rights Achieve Effects Enlightenment Dignity Islam Western Human Rights Heavy Contrary Dialogue Temporary Individual Rights

Author:Ilana Mercer

“I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom ... the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Happens Given Achieve Dignity Absolutes Superiors Superior Man Absolute Freedom

Author:H. L. Mencken

“If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.”

Ifs Self Lost Dignity Who You Are Self Respect Self Knowledge True Knowledge

Author:Immortal Technique

“It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.”

Ifs Trying Littles Character Use Dignity

Book:Summaries of Thought

Source: Summaries of Thought

“Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.”

Ifs Past Loses Lovers Dignity Familiarity Icy Armour Snuff Insensitivity

Author:Honore de Balzac

“One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.”

Ifs Should Believe Humans Happens Jobs Work Human Beings Identity Pride Equal Labor Dignity Tasks

Book:Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

“People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.”

People Ifs Mean Three Opportunity Growth Space Answers Poverty Dignity Increase Threat Population Crowds Decency Decrease Minus Population Growth

Author:Marya Mannes

“If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?”

Ifs Men Risk Ready Dignity Not Ready

Author:Andre Malraux

“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.”

Ifs Feels Humans Important Suffering Wealth Human Beings Compassion Careers Empathy Dignity

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.”

Ifs Would Be Animal Hell Dignity Criminal Mind Used In Criminal Minds

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.”

Ifs Men Dream Would Be Left Mankind Normal Dignity Exposed Gravity

Author:Vera Caspary

“I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.”

Ifs Persons Stills Self Care Wanted Pain Felt Pleasure Identity Dignity Died Uncomfortable Self Respect

Author:Jess C Scott

“People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.”

People Ifs Soul Enough Values Mistake Moral Serious Higher Perception Ordinary Dignity Technique Idiot Sensitive Bitterness Scream Ordinary People

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

Ifs Dies Turns Sweet Summer Flow Dignity Deeds Smell Weed Sweetest Lilies Infection Frailty

Author:William Shakespeare

“To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.”

Ifs Country Artist Dignity Critical Opposition Worthless

Author:Bruno Dumont

“The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects - this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once - and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.”

“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”

People Ifs Trying Kind Mean I Can States Use Might President United United States Offers Office Dignity Former Presidency

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.”

Ifs Way Mean Whole Seems Lying Opinion Break Rights Land Willing Wall Bears Honor Dignity Glad Discussion Womens Rights Public Opinion Usefulness Provinces

Author:Angelina Grimke

“I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.”

Ifs Men Mean Order Winning Sex Prove Dignity Agree Conquer Dirty Considering Celibacy

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Ideas Fall Winning Powerful Consciousness Love You Dignity Treats Abuse Praise Falling In Love Treated Rooted Human Dignity Dignity And Respect

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.”

Ifs Knows Humans Order Air Dignity Constitution Endure Preserves Heritage Free Society Human Dignity Framers

Author:William J. Brennan

“Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.”

Ifs Giving Children Real Boys Greater Teacher Discipline Advantage Female Dignity Males Mood Superiors Command Contact Ethical Uniformity Physical Strength

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.”

People Ifs Thinking Party Cases Virtue Honesty Consequence Dignity Army Corruption Chiefs Conservation Nobility Indulge Pernicious

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about him. He must do spectacular things. He must not be punctilious about dignity, decorum and other refinements characteristic of the real British gentleman. The Yankee pictured by the Briton must be a bustler. If he is occasionally flagrantly indiscreet in speech and action, then he is so much more surely stamped the genuine article. The most typical American the British ever set their eyes on was, in their judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.”

“Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool. ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.”

Ifs Loses Answers Fool Dignity Doctors Treats Bounds Hospitals Doctor Who

Author:Sarah Louise Delany

“Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Would Be Decision Responsibility Steps Mankind Ought Dignity Majority Surrender Experiments Shoulders Cowardice First Steps Retreat Drowning Floundering

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.”

Ifs Has Beens Dignity Humiliating Mythbusters

Author:Adam Savage

“If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.”

Ifs Love Wells Sex Community Land Couple Equal Dignity Commit Offering Ruling Our Community

Author:Barack Obama

“Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.”

People Ifs Want Life Years Matter Fighting Courses Black Rights Dignity Civil Rights Scream Want Me Black Lives

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Be loved. Be known. Love people and know people. Be so brave as to raise a hand for help when you need it. Make friends and make sure they know they matter. Be loyal to them and fight for them. Remind them what’s true and invite them to do the same when you forget. If you do some losing or you walk with someone else in their defeat, live with dignity and grace. It is the middle finger to the darkness.”

Source: If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.”

Ifs Knows Writing May Enough Water Movement Dignity Dues Comeback Iceberg

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.”

“We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.”

“If globalization is a sphere, where each point is equidistant from the centre, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. But if globalization joins us as a polyhedron where we're all together but conserves the dignity of each ... that's good.”

Ifs Together Dignity Spheres Centre Globalization

Author:Pope Francis

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