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Quotes About Dignity

Death strips all men of dignity.
~ Tobsha Learner
Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
~ William Shakespeare
An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.
~ Henning Mankell
My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they've done, and that taking a human life is wrong.
~ Unknown
A man of your valor deserves not another breath.
~ Craig R. Key, A Sight Unseen
I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren't merely objects of desire.
~ Sinead O'Connor
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.
~ Eduardo Galeano
When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
~ Thabo Mbeki
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
~ Bayard Rustin
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
~ Angela Merkel
A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.
~ Cesar Chavez
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.
~ Frantz Fanon
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
~ St. Jerome
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
~ Jackie Robinson
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.
~ Claude McKay
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people.
~ Leon Trotsky
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
~ Jose Marti
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.
~ Claude McKay
Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.
~ Frederick The Great
All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.
~ Marc Bekoff
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
~ John Shelby Spong
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
~ Ernest Hemingway