Quotes About Dignity

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.

By treating blacks as inferior, such policies were an affront to their dignity. This would be true even if these policies had not been accompanied by widespread material harm—even if, for example, the separate facilities had been truly equal (which they were not). Some

It is that flavor exuded by women who have fashioned an earthy and simplified sexual adjustment to their environment, borne their young, achieved an unthinking physical confidence. They are often placidly unkempt, even grubby, taking no interest in the niceties of posture. They have a slow relish for the physical spectrum of food, sun, deep sleep, the needs of children, the caressess of affection. There is a tiny magnificance about them, like the sultry dignity of she-lions.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

It is mere ignorance that leads then to the supposition that connection of art and esthetic perception with experience signifies a lowering of their significance and dignity.

You are earth; he whom you tread upon is no less, and he that treads upon you is no more.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

And kind as kings upon their coronation day.

Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yetIn his own worth.

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

A good death does honour to a whole life.

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

We must make working life more human.