Quotes About Dignity

In some eras, self-control defines the paragon of a decent person: a grown-up, a person of dignity, a lady or a gentleman, a mensch. In others it is jeered at as uptight, prudish, stuffy, straitlaced, puritanical. Certainly the crime-prone 1960s were the recent era that most glorified the relaxation of self-control: Do your own thing, Let it all hang out, If it feels good do it, Take a walk on the wild side.

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

I love the majesty of human suffering.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

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

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

Scott, please take your knee off my neck.

Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.