Quotes About Dignity

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

A man has a right to want to live.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

A slave is but half a man.

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.