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Quotes About Dignity

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
~ Dian Fossey
It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes
~ John Green
Dignity is a bridge.It needs two sides that, being different, distinct and distant become one in the bridgewithout ceasing to be different and distinct, but ceasing already to be distant.
~ Unknown
All lived lives of dignity and repression.
~ Unknown
…a man's value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity." - Dami K.
~ Unknown
For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.
~ Bernhard von Bulow
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
~ Stella Young
Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.
~ Rodrigo Duterte
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.
~ Steven Seagal
In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
~ Maajid Nawaz
It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
~ Melinda Gates
Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.
~ Sherry Argov
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
~ C. S. Lewis
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
~ Hannah More
Better not to exist than live basely.
~ Sophocles
You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.
~ Mauricio Macri
I would assume my father would support anything that lifted up and created opportunities for 'the least of these.'
~ Martin Luther King III
You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.
~ Henry Rollins
How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
You can't turn individual human beings into baby-making machines.
~ Madeline Brewer
People are not machines. And we have to respect that.
~ Jack Conte
While speaking in the NA, one must maintain respect.
~ Asma Jahangir
I'm alright with people making up stuff about me, but not when there's a woman involved.
~ Varun Dhawan
I always want to handle things in the right manner.
~ Jermell Charlo