“At that age you invent extravagant compensations for bruises to your dignity.”
Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean
Part 3, Chapter 3 (p. 118)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
Quoted in The Express https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/553797/Into-The-Woods-Tracey-Ullman-interview in 2015
“At that age you invent extravagant compensations for bruises to your dignity.”
Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean
Part 3, Chapter 3 (p. 118)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
Merold Westphal (1940)
Source: Kierkegaard’s Critique of Reason and Society (1992), p. 49
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961) Congolese Prime Minister, cold war leader, executed
Letter to his wife (Congo, My Country)
Manal al-Sharif (1979) Saudi Arabian activist
About male guardianship on women in Saudi Arabia. As quoted in Saudi women 'still enslaved', says activist as driving ban ends http://news.trust.org/item/20180622172634-f882k/ (22 June 2018) by Heba Kanso, '. <br class="br">Context: Imagine your son becomes your guardian, no matter my capabilities as a woman, I am still enslaved to somebody else. Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free.
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
Book XI, Chapter 2
The History of Tom Jones (1749)
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) American philosopher
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Dedication, p.v
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, How Long, Not Long (1965)
Context: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave Negroes some part of their rightful dignity, but without the vote it was dignity without strength. Once more the method of nonviolent resistance was unsheathed from its scabbard, and once again an entire community was mobilized to confront the adversary. And again the brutality of a dying order shrieks across the land. Yet, Selma, Alabama, became a shining moment in the conscience of man. If the worst in American life lurked in its dark streets, the best of American instincts arose passionately from across the nation to overcome it. There never was a moment in American history more honorable and more inspiring than the pilgrimage of clergymen and laymen of every race and faith pouring into Selma to face danger at the side of its embattled Negroes.
“Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. The whole world is doing things.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion (1913), p. 199
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 88 - 89 -->
Context: Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom is awe.
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
As quoted in Sounds (1990-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print