Quotes About Dignity

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.