“Man of old who could not fight disease and succumbed in multitudes to yellow fever or any other plague could not lay claim to dignity. Only the man who builds hospitals, discovers therapeutic techniques, and saves lives is blessed with dignity.”
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man of Faith, p. 16 (1965)
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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/941035451904856064 (13 December 2017)
2017
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, '.
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.
“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”
Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 4
“Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.”
Essays in Satire, Introduction (1928)
“Honor and dignity of man is only in virtue and piety.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 128
Religious-based Quotes
“Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.”
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“Any man that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.”
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
Final address (1973)
Context: I address the youth, those who sang and gave us their joy and their spirit of struggle. I address the man of Chile, the worker, the farmer, the intellectual, those who will be persecuted, because in our country fascism has been already present for many hours — in terrorist attacks, blowing up the bridges, cutting the railroad tracks, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in the face of the silence of those who had the obligation to act.
They were committed. History will judge them.
Surely, Radio Magallanes will be silenced, and the calm metal instrument of my voice will no longer reach you. It does not matter. You will continue hearing it. I will always be next to you. At least my memory will be that of a man of dignity who was loyal to his country.