Posted on 05/15/2015 9:03:04 AM PDT by all the best
How does one acquire self-respect? Through personal virtuosity. In other words, dignity is derived from within. And from self-respect flows the respect of others — as a natural consequence.
Put another way, whereas civility has to do with how you treat others, dignity has to do with how you treat yourself. Sorry, activist sociopaths, but you don’t have a right to be treated with dignity. You do, however, have a right to possess dignity.
Demanding dignity from others is the ultimate self-delusion. If being treated with dignity is genuinely important to you, the most efficient way to bring that about is to act in dignified ways. And, happily, that’s something over which you have complete control.
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Best example of dignity was Sir Thomas More, condemned to lose his head, giving Richard Rich an object lesson in perjury when Rich was strutting about with the king’s medallion which gave him the right to the office of the Prince of Wales.
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