“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.” MenWayHumansHeartAgeTodayLawDiesNamesSoundAirDogHe ManPersonalityDignityStonesBreathsVictimOur TimeExecutionersHuman Personality Author:Sadegh Hedayat
“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.” IfsMenSawsHe ManPoetDignityCollectivesNormConvincingBrutesRepressionSamenessDeviants Author:Richard Sennett
“A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.” KnowsMenLittlesCharacterKnownDogHe ManDependsDignitySmellCharacteristicsCoatsTailors Book:Modern Painters Source: Modern Painters
“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.” MenWantMindFirstsLongSelfStatesLastsYoungPurposeArtistValuesGoalFailingHe ManCommunicationGeniusHighestDignityPrejudiceRemainsInspiredTendenciesState Of MindRestraintSelf Restraint Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.” MenNeedsArtistFightingStrongForceWalksHe ManPrideProveDignitySecureMartial ArtsMartial ArtistDignity And Pride Author:Ed Parker