Quotes About Dignity

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

But if the only thing defining us is trauma, or wounding, most of us wouldn't be here. Our stories are about far more than the dominant presumption of Indigenous lack or deficiency; our bodies are not only objects of contestation, or devastation, or pain, or suffering.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve.

I purposely, throughout the whole of my divorce, have not said anything publicly. I've not been on social media or put any of my personal views out there. It's not my style.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I'd rather sell groundnuts in my village than to play for a pathetic team like Chelsea.

Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they're flawed and broken somehow. If they're not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That's what an author does if he or she has any dignity.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity is a basic condition for peace.

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

I don't believe in violence against women.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like a tornado, the other, gentle with grace and dignity.

I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.