Quotes About Dignity

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I'm pretty comfortable stripping down to my underwear, as long as there's respect around me.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind's unfinished challenges.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

Nothing is more honorable than a man or woman with a good reputation.

It's not the destination (of seeking the truth) that creates our dignity or integrity, it's the journey. From Messages From a Grandfather, by Robert Gately

I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions.

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.