You never win with violence. You only win when you maintain your dignity. Dignity always prevails.[to Tony]
The coward must abandon his dignity before he abandons the field of battle.
I can deal with the bullets, and the bombs, and the blood. I don’t want money, and I don’t want medals. What I do want is for you to stand there in that faggoty white uniform and with your Harvard mouth extend me some f***ing courtesy. You gotta ask me nicely.
Where are you going? To him?! To be a wh**e to a gutter rat?[Caledon ‘Cal’ Hockley]I’d rather be his wh**e than your wife.[Rose DeWitt Bukater]
They will imprison us. They will fine us. They will seize our possessions. But they cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Money’s dignity. Not having to beg for a break. Can’t tell you what it meant to finally be one of those people you can’t shame, shake down, or f*** over.
It’s not bad for a beggar.[Telemachus]No one’s born a beggar.[Odysseus]
I’m aware what tremendous feats human beings are capable of once they abandon dignity.
From Murray Franklin, to those goddamn fat, stupid guards at Arkham. They think that they can treat me like trash. But I will no longer allow you, or you, or you, or any of you to keep me down. I am free!
