Quotes About Dignity

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.

Stand in your own truth and you will command respect.

People Really Do Respect Those who are Willing to Speak their Truth

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."— Aristotle