Quotes About Dignity

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.

People are not things, you cannot have ownership.

Your integrity is more precious than your life.

You are someone and you have a right to your life.

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

What we do to many factory farm animals is dishonorable in the same way that carelessly wounding an animal while hunting is dishonorable.

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

These qualities were captured in a poem she called "Decision," written in the winter of 1992-93. She wrote of her battle to overcome her fears and the secrecy and silence that had always oppressed her. She had chosen, she said, to "no longer" let her abduction experiences "take all of me . . . At least I will have the dignity," she concluded, "of knowing and owning my own memory.

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

I don't snore," Horace said, with dignity. Will raised his eyebrows."Is that so?" he said. "Then in that case, you'd better chase out that colony of walruses who are in the tent with you.

Even was zelfs heer Anton van zijn protocollaire à propos gebracht.

His astonishing constancy during these trials, and serenity of countenance while under such excruciating torments, gave the spectators so exalted an idea of the dignity and truth of the christian religion, that many became converts upon the occasion,

"Who touches a hair of yon gray headDies like a dog! March on!" he said.

The protection of rights is inevitable if preservation of dignity is valued.