Quotes About Humanity

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to hold whatever religious beliefs we choose.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

Human dignity should be without borders.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

Treat people with dignity and respect.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

All people have dignity. Theres nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.