Quotes About Dignity

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

Booker T. Washington

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

God therefore useth means, not for want of power, but through the abundance of his goodness: that namely he might communicate a certain dignity of working to his Creatures also, in them might make his efficiency more perceivable.

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

What honour is left to us?' asked a Mughal official, 'when we have to take orders from a handful of traders who have not yet learned to wash their bottoms?

He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

G?sesc c? numa' a?a po?i tr?i pe lume, f?când mereu câte ceva, de vrei s? nu-nnebune?ti or s? nu scobori mai jos decât câinele ultimului om.

One who takes a favor or submits to patronage demeans himself. He falls under obligation. He

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

Why would I be angry? Because they believe a thing does not make it so. There is no dignity in anger. But I am also not a kicked dog.

Non c'è fine alla crudeltà in questo mondo, e non importa quanto si precipiti in basso, non c'è mai fondo. Ma tu hai una cosa bella in te, Mose. Sei un sioux. Nelle tue vene scorre sangue buono e nobile. Non permettere a nessuno di dirti il contrario.

Because they believe a thing does not make it so. There is no dignity in anger. But

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but in his face. —DIOGENES THE CYNIC