Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
Rick BraggTags: compassion poverty dignity
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Mahatma GandhiTags: man history faith dignity
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. WashingtonDignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
AristotleTags: dignity
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.
Tags: inspirational self-respect discipline dignity
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment equality gender poetry men women writing judgment feminism misogyny hypocrisy criticism respect double-standards dignity
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment gender women morality feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés womanhood dignity protectiveness social-norms
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco ChanelTags: individuality empowerment freedom courage judgment thought self-determination independence speaking-out dignity
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: science power africa death civilization apathy grace brave curse rome influence islam mohammed the-prophet ancient-rome slavery development europe commerce dignity agriculture central-africa concubine faith-of-islam fanatical hydrophobia insecurity militant militant-faith mohammedan mohammedanism muslims paralysis property proselytizing religious-fanaticism retrograde sharia-law
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
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