Fragment 104, for example, compares a human life to a 'thinking reed.' "It is not in space that I should search for my dignity, but in the control of my thoughts … The universe comprehends me by space and engulfs me like a point; by means of thought, I comprehend it" (II, 574).
I lost my dignity in prison.
"It's already hard enough for me to keep my dignity in the mass media".
"She owns everything in this flat, including my dignity," he observes.
Zuma states in a legal affidavit: "The continued display of the portrait is manifestly serious and has the effect of impugning my dignity in the eyes of all who see it.
Whereas nonviolent civil disobedience is the manifestation of my ideology, it is rooted in a love that is central to my identity.… [A]s I stand before you today, I cannot confess to a crime I did not commit; I cannot do away with my dignity in hopes that you will return me my freedom.
"It is very tempting for me to come out with loud statements, but it is more important I keep my dignity in what is quite a trying time.
Stripped of everything, including my dignity, in constant pain, I scrambled to my former home, Martha's Vineyard, whose beauty I hoped would heal me.
The message she should be conveying to her young fans is that "I succeeded through hard work and talent, not shortcuts like compromising my dignity in order to get attention".
I've already vested my hope and my dignity in a movement that one commenter on my last post chose to satirize as follows: "I attended an OWS protest but then I left because there weren't enough 'Rape Tents.'" I've already exposed myself as an idealist whose greatest utopian project was a crime-ridden shanty-town in lower Manhattan.
