Joan Sutherland Quotes

Dignity is the issue that vexes billions of people around the world, not democracy…. People don't like to be told what to do by outsiders … Foreign intervention offends people's dignity.

I don't have a hard and fast rule about dignity. I'm concerned about being treated with respect, but if I make my own choices and kind of let 'er rip, I will.

I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave.

I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Long ago I gave my word solemnly that I would not accept any rank or military or political position; for this reason I hope that Your Excellency will not compromise my honour before the people, and that you will not attribute my returning the appointment to excessive pride.