I saw you then not only as the symbol of your people and its greatness, but as the voice of the invincible and uncompromising conscience of the human race at a time of danger to the dignity of man, created in the image of God. It was not only the liberties and the honor of your own people that you saved.
Where the self is conceived as prior to its ends, independent of the roles it may occupy at any given time, reputation cannot be a matter of honor in the traditional sense. For the unencumbered self, not honor but dignity is the basis of respect?the dignity that consists in the capacity of persons as autonomous agents to choose their ends for themselves. Unlike honor, which ties respect for persons to the roles they inhabit, dignity resides in a self antecedent to social institutions, and so is invulnerable to injury by insult alone. For selves such as these, reputation matters, not intrinsically, as a matter of honor, but only instrumentally, as a business asset for example.
There is no valid virtue without piety, and there is no authentic piety without virtue.
Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
A man of honor is never predatory or unfaithful. He does not regard women as objects. He treats women with respect as his equal in dignity.
A warrior has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country; he has only life to be lived, and under these circumstances, his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly.
The virtue of knowledge is more lovable with Allah than the virtue of worship. The best (thing) in your religion is piety.
The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.