Quotes About Dignity

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.

You can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty.

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

If peace cannot be maintained with honor it is no longer peace.

The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them

Without peace, justice and freedom, the true value and dignity of mankind disappears.

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.