Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of… — Margo MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“I’m talking about the kind of indignity that changes you as a person, makes you withdraw, hide from the world because suddenly… — S. Walden Copy Share Image
The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“To me, a world which thinks of itself in terms of puny, squalid, bickering little nations and not as one glorious field… — Michael Arlen Copy Share Image
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and… — Judi Chamberlin Copy Share Image
These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present… — P. M. Forni Copy Share Image
I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let… — Patricia Young Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices,… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice-raised above others-which can finally be… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
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