Quotes About Dignity

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

Every life is precious.

There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and chemicals are put inside our bodies against our will.

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.