Quotes About Dignity

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

All human life is precious.

A life is a life no matter how small

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

For me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day. But it all for me begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

Malcolm Muggeridge famously said that "without God we are left with a choice of succumbing to megalomania or erotomania."3 The court's majority, in declaring by sheer judicial fiat the equal dignity under law of the family and sodomy, would appear to have gone Muggeridge one better by succumbing to both at once.

I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

Work is not just about economic reward. It is also about purpose and self-respect.

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship, is recorded.