#dignity

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#characters #dignity #get #having #i

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. ↗

— George Grenville

#enforce #government #how #knows #temper

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. ↗

— Rick Bragg

#dignity #poverty #life

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#obedience #respect #respect

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#almost #america #any #captured #considered

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes. ↗

— Mary Astell

#considerable #dignity #even #eyes #father

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#discrimination #each #other #ourselves #practice

I want to age with some dignity. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#dignity #i #some #want

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#manners #politeness #respect #respect