Indignity Quotes

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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
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
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end.… — Diane Lane
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see… — Muhammad Yunus
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
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted. — Max Lerner
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the… — Terry Rossio
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. — Kelsey Grammer
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. — Maggie Kuhn
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the… — Stephen Fry
There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing. — Tariq Ramadan
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
We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.… — Nelson Mandela
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell… — Steve Buscemi
I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding… — Phil Ochs
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

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