Quotes About Dignity

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?

A gallant man is above ill words.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Am I not a man and brother?

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

There's no doubt that Mexican men and women - full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work - are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

An honest man is respected by all parties.