Indignities Quotes

21 quotes by 21 authors

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived… — Arenda L. Wright Allen
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter… — Mark Twain
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there… — Moss Hart
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. — Kelsey Grammer
Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of… — John D. MacDonald
How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife… — W. E. B. Du Bois
If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another… — Gordon Allport
We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others… — Stephen Covey
There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled â€“when to get up, to eat, to shower-and chemicals are put… — Judi Chamberlin
The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced. It's one thing for me to be mistaken… — Barack Obama
These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace… — P. M. Forni
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 want to be… — Judd Apatow
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. — Herman Melville
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand… — Nelson Mandela
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at… — John Mortimer
Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot… — Megan Whalen Turner
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He… — Jonathan Franzen
Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives. — Rick Perlstein
By indignities men come to dignities. — Francis Bacon

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