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‘Dignity still matters in public life. And Johnson will never have it.’ Max Hastings, This is England I, Sky Atlantic 2022
Patient: I want to die with a little dignity.
Dr House: There’s no such thing. Our bodies break down. Sometimes when we’re ninety. Sometimes before we’re even born. But it always happens. And there’s never any dignity in it. I don’t care if you can walk, see or wipe your own arse. It’s always ugly. Always. (Body & Death & Dignity) House, Fox TV
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage. Horace Walpole
Without God man has no reference point to define himself. Twentieth century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity. R C Sproul
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. Martin Amis, The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11th
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. Calvin Coolidge
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose. Nelson Mandela
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. John Charles Polanyi
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavour 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, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
‘What do you think dignity’s all about?’
The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. ‘It’s rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,’ I said. ‘But I suspect it comes down to not removing one’s clothing in public.’ Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity. William Shatner
Get to sleep, man. Where’s your dignity? Don’t ring here again. The Damned United 2009 starring Michael Sheen & Timothy Spall & Maurice Roeves & Elizabeth Carling & Oliver Stokes & Ryan Day & Peter Quinn & Colm Meaney & Henry Goodman & Jim Broadbent, director Tom Hooper, Revie to Clough on dog-n-bone middle of night
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the presidency. Richard M Nixon
Ed: 30 years. She’s a child, you’re a grown man. You’ve got grandchildren older than her. Where’s your dignity?
Finn: Dignity is what I’m taking back. Gangs of London s1e7, Sky 2020
When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. Bayard Rustin