Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.
Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet. This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar's home has sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council.
It is a hallmark of the American system of justice that anyone who appears as a litigant in an American courtroom is treated with dignity and respect.
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can't compete with illegal workers who are being exploited. So to restore dignity to work, we must control immigration.
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.