#dignity

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[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present.


Elizabeth I Tudor


#choice #contentment #dignity #empowerment #freedom

I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners of the earth in the hope that humankind would forget both his writings and his name. I'd like to be able to make that demand; commemorative ceremonies are not only false but dangerous, as are all statues of famous men. Long live forgetfulness, I've always said—the only dignity I see is in oblivion.


Luis Buñuel


#de-sade #death #dignity #legacy #marquis-de-sade

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.


J.M. Coetzee


#love #risk #love

Son, a real battlefield lacks dignity and honor. When lives are being spent—actual human lives—those high-minded concepts lose their meaning. All that matters is victory. If you have blades, you’ll use blades. If you have rocks, you’ll use rocks. If there’s nothing but sand, you’ll throw the damn sand. A true war is only waged when men don’t want to live to see what failure looks like. You do what it takes to win. You go wherever necessity takes you.


B. Justin Shier


#failure #honor #victory #war #men

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.


Christine de Pizan


#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?


Henry Campbell-Bannerman


#attained #been #civil #dignity #gentlemen

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.


Roddy Doyle


#experience #go #good #i #indignity

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.


T. E. Lawrence


#dignity #england #escape #hard #honor

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.


Flora Lewis


#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity

I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.


Justin Long


#been #bored #call #characters #dignity