Quotes About Dignity

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Another root of our malady is our loss of the sense of the worth and dignity of the human being. Nietzsche predicted this when he pointed out that the individual was being swallowed up in the herd, and that we were living by a "slave-morality." Marx also predicted it when he proclaimed that modern man was being "de-humanized," and Kafka showed in his amazing stories how people literally can lose their identity as persons.

A] man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were individuals like myself, like my family, with every right and expectation of any human who is a member of our tortured race. I was determined to persevere.

Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Islam calls that 'the roots of heaven' and to the Mexican Indians it is the 'tree of life'--the thing that makes both of them fall on their knees and raise their eyes and beat their tormented breasts. [...] Our needs--for justice, for freedom and dignity--are roots of heaven that are deeply embedded in our hearts, but of heaven itself men know nothing but the gripping roots...

L'ironia è una dichiarazione di dignità. È l'affermazione della superiorità dell'essere umano su quello che gli capita.

the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.

Peer Qvist, grasping the Bible in his hands and reaffirming to the Court his determination to carry on his defense of the whole infinite variety of roots which Heaven had planted in the earth and also in the depths of the human soul — roots which gripped them like a premonition and a longing, a tortured aspiration, a craving for justice, for dignity, freedom and love.

To the people, Morel was the hero of a cause that had nothing to do with nations and political ideologies, a cause that had nothing to do with Africa and touched what was deepest in them — a secret rancor — a confused dream of being able one day to emerge victorious from the difficulty of being a man. They were staking a claim to respectful and decent treatment.

I'm an old naturalist. I defend all the roots that God has planted deep in the earth — and also the ones He has planted forever in the human soul — call it a need for justice, for freedom, for dignity . . .

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Don't let anyone tell you that you don't have rights, because no one has the right to say that.

Respect is like air. As long as it's present, nobody thinks about it. But if you take it away, it's all that people can think about. The instant people perceive disrespect in a conversation, the interaction is no longer about the original purpose—it is now about defending dignity.

Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.

I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.

Death has dominion because it is not only the start of nothing but the end of everything, and how we think and talk about dying - the emphasis we put on dying with 'dignity' - shows how important it is that life ends appropriately , that death keeps faith with the way we have lived it.

3. Challenge your mind to make significant judgments. To Socrates, the capacity to judge for ourselves was the expression of our human dignity. No oracle, no law, no assumed belief, no unanimously held opinion was exempt from our examination of its validity.

Regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, never-Trumper, or apolitical, surely we can unite on that front and agree that the objectification and sexualization of girls and women is never acceptable on any level.

Just as we should stand against the objectification of women, we too, should stand against dangerous stereotypes that liken men to animals on the prowl, ruled primarily by raging hormones and uncontrollable impulses. This is an insult to principled men who exhibit great respect for women and value them for their personhood, rather than their collective parts.

No one will hear our pleas for the unborn if, at the same time, we ignore the devaluation of other marginalized populations outside of the womb.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them," publisher Malcolm S. Forbes once said. In Hillary Clinton's case, because she is so nasty to agents and hostile toward law enforcement officers and military officers in general, agents consider being assigned to her detail a form of punishment. In fact, agents say being on Hillary Clinton's detail is the worst duty assignment in the Secret Service.